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A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes. Silk serge, a twilled silk fabric used mostly by tailors for lining parts of gentlemen's coats.

The office of a sergeant; sergeantship. [Written also serjeancy.]

the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery. The sergeant of the town of Rome…

Same as Sergeancy.

See Sergeanty. [R.] [Written also serjeantry.]

The office of sergeant.

nd of service not due to any lord, but to the king only. [Written also serjeanty.] Grand sergeanty, a particular kind of tenure by which the tenant was bound to do some special honorary service to the king in person, as to carry his banner, his sword, or the like. Tomlins. Cowell. Blackstone. -- Petit sergeanty. See u…

A charge of wash for the still. Knight.

A plant (Orchis mascula); -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long.

A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminæ varying in color from brown to black.

ith water; to inundate; to flood; to drown. I would thou didst, So half my Egypt were submerged. Shak.

The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion.

Working together; coöperating; as, synergetic muscles.

The doctrine or theory, attributed to Melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a coöperation, or joint agency, on the part both of God and of man.

One who holds the doctrine of synergism.

Of or pertaining to synergism. "A synergistic view of regeneration." Shedd.

the combined healty action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.

Display of force or energy at a distance, or without contact; - - applied to mediumistic phenomena. -- Tel`en*er"gic (#), a.

Of or pertaining to back, or tergum. See Dorsal.

Showing the back; as, the eagle tergant. [Written also tergiant.]