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- English Word Sergeancies Definition of Sergeancy
- English Word Sergeancy Definition The office of a sergeant; sergeantship.
- English Word Sergeant Definition Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on 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.
- English Word Sergeant Definition In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc.
- English Word Sergeant Definition A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.
- English Word Sergeant Definition A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
- English Word Sergeant Definition The cobia.
- English Word Sergeantcy Definition Same as Sergeancy.
- English Word Sergeantry Definition See Sergeanty.
- English Word Sergeantship Definition The office of sergeant.
- English Word Sergeanty Definition Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only.
- English Word Serial Definition Of or pertaining to a series; consisting of a series; appearing in successive parts or numbers; as, a serial work or publication.
- English Word Serial Definition Of or pertaining to rows.
- English Word Serial Definition A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical.
- English Word Seriality Definition The quality or state of succession in a series; sequence.
- English Word Serially Definition In a series, or regular order; in a serial manner; as, arranged serially; published serially.
- English Word Seriate Definition Arranged in a series or succession; pertaining to a series.
- English Word Seriatim Definition In regular order; one after the other; severally.
- English Word Seriation Definition Arrangement or position in a series.
- English Word Sericeous Definition Of or pertaining to silk; consisting of silk; silky.