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An apprentice. [Obs. or Colloq.] Piers Plowman. "My accuser is my prentice." Shak.

Apprenticehood. [Obs.] This jolly prentice with his master bode Till he was out nigh of his prenticehood. Chaucer.

Apprenticeship. [Obs. or Colloq.] He served a prenticeship who sets up shop. Pope.

One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

Apprenticeship. [Obs.]

Apprenticeship. [Obs.]

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

To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic.

Bound by articles; apprenticed; as, an articled clerk.

In the United States navy, a sick-bay nurse; -- now officially designated as hospital apprentice.

To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service. To bind over, to put under bonds to do something, as to appear at court, to keep the peace, etc. -- To bind to, to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife. -- To bind up in, to cause…

to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying. My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his knees he would be even with me. Shak.

One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship. [Scot.]

he good and evil forces of nature are of equal power. -- Printer's devil, the youngest apprentice in a printing office, who runs on errands, does dirty work (as washing the ink rollers and sweeping), etc. "Without fearing the printer's devil or the sheriff's officer." Macaulay. -- Tasmanian devil (Zoöl.), a very sava…

amilton. The village carpenter . . . lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship. H. Spencer.

old or jewelry. -- Gold-end man. (a) A buyer of old gold or jewelry. (b) A goldsmith's apprentice. (c) An itinerant jeweler. "I know him not: he looks like a gold-end man." B. Jonson. -- Gold fever, a popular mania for gold hunting. -- Gold field, a region in which are deposits of gold. -- Gold finder. (a) One who…

To bind out by indenture or contract; 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.

sually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master. The law is the best expositor of the gospel; they are like a pair of indentures: they answer in every part. C. Leslie.

A young man living as an apprentice on a sheep station, or otherwise engaged in acquainting himself with colonial life. [Colloq., Australia]