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for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper. "A yearly hired servant." Lev. xxv. 53. Men in office have begun to think themselves mere agents and servants of the appointing power, and not agents of the government or the country. D. Webster.

A maidservant. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A body of servants; servants, collectively. [R.]

. . . be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant. Lev. xxv. 39, 40.

Having the power or quality of conservation.

A servant who attends faithfully to his duty only when watched.

Not observant; regardless; heedless. Bp. Hurd. -- In`ob*serv"ant*ly, adv.

A female servant.

A male servant.

Taking notice; viewing or noticing attentively; watchful; attentive; as, an observant spectator; observant habits. Wandering from clime to clime observant stray'd. Pope.

e Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.

In an observant manner.

An inferior servant.

To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest. He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay.

Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant.

A maidservant; a handmaid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell. This proud king . . . studies day and night To answer all the debts he owes unto you. Shak.

A suffix sometimes marking the agent for action; as, merchant, covenant, servant, pleasant, etc. Cf. -ent.

The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master.

tual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of. Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint. 2 Sam. xv. 15. He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness. Acts xvii. 31. Say that the emperor request a parley . . . and appo…