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A page; a servant. [Obs.]

An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term.

A domestic servant; a retainer. [Obs.] "False homely hewe." Chaucer.

A domestic; a servant. [Obs.] Shak.

A servant; a farm laborer; a peasant; a hind. [Obs.] Bailiff, herd, nor other hine. Chaucer.

abor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate.

A servant who called out the hours. [Obs.]

A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute.

eeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs.

A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms. Housemaid's knee (Med.), a swelling over the knee, due to an enlargement of the bursa in the front of the kneepan; -- so called because frequently occurring in servant girls who work upon their knees.

erived from a pie made of the entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See Humbles. Halliwell. Thackeray.

A servant. See Hine. [Obs.] Chaucer.

tract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.

Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant.

thfulness to a charge, or to moral obligation; treachery; deceit; as, the infidelity of a servant. "The infidelity of friends." Sir W. Temple.

g; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful; saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent servant. "A paltry, insolent fellow." Shak. Insolent is he that despiseth in his judgment all other folks as in regard of his value, of his cunning, of his speaking, and of his bearing. Chaucer. Can you not see or will ye not obse…

Intelligence office, an office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.

er with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to a servant.

An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic. "Jack fool." Chaucer. Since every Jack became a gentleman, There 's many a gentle person made a Jack. Shak.

A low servant; a mean fellow. Shak.