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See Sergeant, Sergeantcy, etc.
See under Sergeant.
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A large wax candle used in the ceremonies of various churches.
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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.
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In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
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A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.
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To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.
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Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only.
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See Sergeanty.
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A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
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of Sergeancy
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Same as Sergeancy.
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A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes.
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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.
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A delicate kind of serge, or woolen cloth.
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The office of sergeant.
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One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates.
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The cobia.
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The office of a sergeant; sergeantship.
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A kind of coarse serge.
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