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Exaction of forced service; compulsion. [Obs.] Speed.

One who goes before; a predecessor. The successor seldom prosecuting his antecessor's devices. Sir E. Sandys.

A service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services.

An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure. Woven with antics and wild imagery. Spenser.

A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.…

A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

eparate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.

The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances.

r set apart by authority. Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service. Num. iv. 19. These were cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. Josh. xx. 9.

The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.

eel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

A branch of the military service; as, the cavalry arm was made efficient.

ly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire. Jacob.

The deeds or exploits of war; military service or science. "Arms and the man I sing." Dryden.

age limit. It for any reason he is not enrolled in the regular army, he may begin his service in the army reserves or even the home reserves, but then serves the full number of years or up to the age limit. In equipment the organization of the army is into the three great arms of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, toge…

anufacture and storage, of arms and all military equipments, whether for land or naval service.

Skillful plan; device. They employed every art to soothe . . . the discontented warriors. Macaulay.

Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick.

The service or ceremony of sprinkling with holy water.

The relation of some state or condition; as, at war; at peace; at ease; at your service; at fault; at liberty; at risk; at disadvantage.