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An armed constable; also, a government servant or courier. [Turkey]

To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc. I keep but three men and a boy. Shak.

The body of servants employed in the kitchen. [Obs.] Holland.

A kitchen servant; a cook. Carlyle.

A boy; especially, a boy servant. [Obs.] Wyclif. Chaucer. O murderous slumber, Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy That plays thee music Gentle knave, good night. Shak.

A young servant or follower; a military attendant. [Obs.]

An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. Shak. Lackey caterpillar (Zoöl.), the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party- colored markings. The common European species (C. neustria) is striped with…

One who leads a pack horse; a miller's servant. [Obs. or Local]

a lady having jurisdiction of a manor; also, the wife of a manor lord. Lady's maid, a maidservant who dresses and waits upon a lady. Thackeray. -- Our Lady, the Virgin Mary.

Acting as a hired servant; serving; ministering; assisting. [Obs.]

To place (new type) properly in the cases. To lay asleep, to put sleep; to make unobservant or careless. Bacon. -- To lay bare, to make bare; to strip. And laid those proud roofs bare to summer's rain. Byron. -- To lay before, to present to; to submit for consideration; as, the papers are laid before Congress. -- To…

One who lends. The borrower is servant to the lender. Prov. xxii. 7.

-- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection. But ye . . . caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection. Jer. xxxiv. 16. Delivered fro the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. B…

success probable; well adapted to the place; promising; as, a likely young man; a likely servant.

on condition of being pleased with; as, to hold a place of service on liking; to engage a servant on liking. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line . . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance Hazlitt.

that lived upon the sea. Shak. To live out, to be at service; to live away from home as a servant. [U. S.] -- To live with. (a) To dwell or to be a lodger with. (b) To cohabit with; to have intercourse with, as male with female.

Wearing a livery. See Livery, 3. The liveried servants wait. Parnell.

The peculiar dress by which the servants of a nobleman or gentleman are distinguished; as, a claret-colored livery.

One who wears a livery, as a servant.

n the fourth century, who held that the Holy Ghost was a creature, like the angels, and a servant of the Father and the Son.