Serve (v. t.) Hence, to bring forward, arrange, deal, or distribute, as a portion of anything, especially of food prepared for eating; -- often with up; formerly with in.
Serve (v. t.) To perform the duties belonging to, or required in or for; hence, to be of use to; as, a curate may serve two churches; to serve one's country.
Serve (v. t.) To contribute or conduce to; to promote; to be sufficient for; to satisfy; as, to serve one's turn.
Serve (v. t.) To answer or be (in the place of something) to; as, a sofa serves one for a seat and a couch.
Serve (v. t.) To treat; to behave one's self to; to requite; to act toward; as, he served me very ill.
Serve (v. t.) To work; to operate; as, to serve the guns.
Serve (v. t.) To bring to notice, deliver, or execute, either actually or constructively, in such manner as the law requires; as, to serve a summons.
Serve (v. t.) To make legal service opon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.); as, to serve a witness with a subp/na.
Serve (v. t.) To pass or spend, as time, esp. time of punishment; as, to serve a term in prison.
Serve (v. t.) To copulate with; to cover; as, a horse serves a mare; -- said of the male.
Serve (v. t.) To lead off in delivering (the ball).
Serve (v. t.) To wind spun yarn, or the like, tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. See under Serving.
Serve (v. i.) To be a servant or a slave; to be employed in labor or other business for another; to be in subjection or bondage; to render menial service.
Serve (v. i.) To perform domestic offices; to be occupied with household affairs; to prepare and dish up food, etc.
Serve (v. i.) To be in service; to do duty; to discharge the requirements of an office or employment. Specifically, to act in the public service, as a soldier, seaman. etc.
Serve (v. i.) To be of use; to answer a purpose; to suffice; to suit; to be convenient or favorable.
Serve (v. i.) To lead off in delivering the ball.
Server (n.) One who serves.
Server (n.) A tray for dishes; a salver.
Servian (a.) Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe.
Servian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Servia.
Service () Alt. of Service
Service () A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries.
Service (n.) The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper, slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience and love.
Service (n.) The deed of one who serves; labor performed for another; duty done or required; office.
Service (n.) Office of devotion; official religious duty performed; religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial service.
Service (n.) Hence, a musical composition for use in churches.
Service (n.) Duty performed in, or appropriate to, any office or charge; official function; hence, specifically, military or naval duty; performance of the duties of a soldier.
Service (n.) Useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes interest or happiness; benefit; avail.
Service (n.) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
Service (n.) The act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat it; order of dishes at table; also, a set or number of vessels ordinarily used at table; as, the service was tardy and awkward; a service of plate or glass.
Service (n.) The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subp/na or an attachment.
Service (n.) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., as spun yarn, small lines, etc.
Service (n.) The act of serving the ball.
Service (n.) Act of serving or covering. See Serve, v. t., 13.
Serviceable (a.) Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous.
Serviceable (a.) Prepared for rendering service; capable of, or fit for, the performance of duty; hence, active; diligent.
Serviceage (n.) Servitude.
Servient (a.) Subordinate.
Serviette (n.) A table napkin.
Servile (a.) Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.
Servile (a.) Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
Servile (a.) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter.
Servile (a.) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.
Servile (n.) An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
Servilely (adv.) In a servile manner; slavishly.
Servileness (n.) Quality of being servile; servility.
Servility (n.) The quality or state of being servile; servileness.
Serving () a. & n. from Serve.
Servite (n.) One of the order of the Religious Servants of the Holy Virgin, founded in Florence in 1223.
Servifor (n.) One who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts under another; a follower or adherent.
Servifor (n.) An undergraduate, partly supported by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities.
Servitorship (n.) The office, rank, or condition of a servitor.
Servitude (n.) The state of voluntary or compulsory subjection to a master; the condition of being bound to service; the condition of a slave; slavery; bondage; hence, a state of slavish dependence.
Servitude (n.) Servants, collectively.
Servitude (n.) A right whereby one thing is subject to another thing or person for use or convenience, contrary to the common right.
Serviture (n.) Servants, collectively.
Servitute (n.) Servitude.
Serye (n.) A series.
Sesame (n.) Either of two annual herbaceous plants of the genus Sesamum (S. Indicum, and S. orientale), from the seeds of which an oil is expressed; also, the small obovate, flattish seeds of these plants, sometimes used as food. See Benne.
Sesamoid (a.) Resembling in shape the seeds of sesame.
Sesamoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the sesamoid bones or cartilages; sesamoidal.
Sesamoid (n.) A sesamoid bone or cartilage.
Sesamoidal (a.) Sesamoid.
Sesban (n.) A leguminous shrub (Sesbania aculeata) which furnishes a fiber used for making ropes.
Sesqui- () A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting that three atoms or equivalents of the substance to the name of which it is prefixed are combined with two of some other element or radical; as, sesquibromide, sesquicarbonate, sesquichloride, sesquioxide.
Sesquialter (a.) Sesquialteral.
Sesquialter (n.) Alt. of Sesquialtera
Sesquialtera (n.) A stop on the organ, containing several ranks of pipes which reenforce some of the high harmonics of the ground tone, and make the sound more brilliant.
Sesquialteral (a.) Alt. of Sesquialterate
Sesquialterate (a.) Once and a half times as great as another; having the ratio of one and a half to one.
Sesquialterous (a.) Sesquialteral.
Sesquibasic (a.) Containing, or acting as, a base in the proportions of a sesqui compound.
Sesquiduplicate (a.) Twice and a half as great (as another thing); having the ratio of two and a half to one.
Sesquioxide (n.) An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen with two atoms (or radicals) of some other substance; thus, alumina, Al2O3 is a sesquioxide.
Sesquipedal (a.) Alt. of Sesquipedalian
Sesquipedalian (a.) Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words.
Sesquipedalianism (n.) Alt. of Sesquipedalism
Sesquipedalism (n.) Sesquipedality.
Sesqyipedality (n.) The quality or condition of being sesquipedal.
Sesqyipedality (n.) The use of sesquipedalian words; style characterized by the use of long words; sesquipedalism.
Sesquiplicate (a.) Subduplicate of the triplicate; -- a term applied to ratios; thus, a and a' are in the sesquiplicate ratio of b and b', when a is to a' as the square root of the cube of b is to the square root of the cube of b', or a:a'::Ăb3:Ăb'3.
Sesquisalt (n.) A salt derived from a sesquioxide base, or made up on the proportions of a sesqui compound.
Sesquisulphide (n.) A sulphide, analogous to a sesquioxide, containing three atoms of sulphur to two of the other ingredient; -- formerly called also sesquisulphuret; as, orpiment, As2S3 is arsenic sesquisulphide.
Sesquitertial (a.) Sesquitertian.
Sesquitertian (a.) Alt. of Sesquitertianal
Sesquitertianal (a.) Having the ratio of one and one third to one (as 4 : 3).
Sesquitone (n.) A minor third, or interval of three semitones.
Sess (v. t.) To lay a tax upon; to assess.
Sess (n.) A tax; an assessment. See Cess.
Sessa (interj.) Hurry; run.
Sessile (a.) Attached without any sensible projecting support.
Sessile (a.) Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.
Sessile (a.) Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.
Sessile-eyed (a.) Having eyes which are not elevated on a stalk; -- opposed to stalk-eyed.
Session (n.) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
Session (n.) The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.
Session (n.) Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.
Sessional (a.) Of or pertaining to a session or sessions.
Sesspool (n.) Same as Cesspool.