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Bond service
Bond service Bond" serv`ice
The condition of a bond servant; service without wages;
slavery.
Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a
tribute of bond service. --1 Kings ix.
21.
Bord service
Bord service Bord" serv`ice [Bordar (or perh. bord a board) +
service.] (O. Eng. Law)
Service due from a bordar; bordage.
Burial serviceBurial Bur"i*al, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS.
byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli
sepulcher.]
1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.]
The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and
biriels weren opened. --Wycliff
[Matt. xxvii.
51, 52].
2. The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth,
in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with
attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. ``To give a
public burial.' --Shak.
Now to glorious burial slowly borne. --Tennyson.
Burial case, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to
close air-tight, for the preservation of a dead body.
Burial ground, a piece of ground selected and set apart for
a place of burials, and consecrated to such use by
religious ceremonies.
Burial place, any place where burials are made.
Burial service.
(a) The religious service performed at the interment of
the dead; a funeral service.
(b) That portion of a liturgy which is read at an
interment; as, the English burial service.
Syn: Sepulture; interment; inhumation. Choir serviceChoir Choir, n. [OE. quer, OF. cuer, F. ch[oe]ur, fr. L.
chorus a choral dance, chorus, choir, fr. Gr. ?, orig.
dancing place; prob. akin to ? inclosure, L. hortus garden,
and E. yard. See Chorus.]
1. A band or organized company of singers, especially in
church service. [Formerly written also quire.]
2. That part of a church appropriated to the singers.
3. (Arch.) The chancel.
Choir organ (Mus.), one of the three or five distinct
organs included in the full organ, each separable from the
rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of
the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable
for ordinary service and in the accompanying of the vocal
choir.
Choir screen, Choir wall (Arch.), a screen or low wall
separating the choir from the aisles.
Choir service, the service of singing performed by the
choir. --T. Warton. Choral serviceChoral Cho"ral, a. [LL. choralis, fr. L. chorus. See
Chorus.]
Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or
adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.
Choral service, a service of song. Civil Service Commission
Civil Service Commission Civil Service Commission
In the United States, a commission appointed by the
President, consisting of three members, not more than two of
whom may be adherents of the same party, which has the
control, through examinations, of appointments and promotions
in the classified civil service. It was created by act of
Jan, 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403).
Civil Service Reform
Civil Service Reform Civil Service Reform
The substitution of business principles and methods for
political methods in the conduct of the civil service. esp.
the merit system instead of the spoils system in making
appointments to office.
ConservingConserve Con*serve", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conserved; p. pr. &
vb. n. Conserving.] [F. conserver, L. conservare; con- +
servare to keep, guard. See Serve.]
1. To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to
protect.
The amity which . . . they meant to conserve and
maintain with the emperor. --Strype.
2. To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of
preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of. DeservingDeserve De*serve" (d[-e]*z[~e]rv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Deserved; p. pr. & vb. n. Deserving.] [OF. deservir,
desservir, to merit, L. deservire to serve zealously, be
devoted to; de- + servire to serve. See Serve.]
1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either
good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the
laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves
praise.
God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity
deserveth. --Job xi. 6.
John Gay deserved to be a favorite. --Thackeray.
Encouragement is not held out to things that deserve
reprehension. --Burke.
2. To serve; to treat; to benefit. [Obs.]
A man that hath So well deserved me. --Massinger. Deserving
Deserving De*serv"ing, n.
Desert; merit.
A person of great deservings from the republic.
--Swift.
DeservingDeserving De*serv"ing, a.
Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act. --
De*serv"ing*ly, adv. DeservinglyDeserving De*serv"ing, a.
Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act. --
De*serv"ing*ly, adv. Disservice
Disservice Dis*serv"ice, n. [Pref. dis- + service: cf. F.
desservice.]
Injury; mischief.
We shall rather perform good offices unto truth than
any disservice unto their relators. --Sir T.
Browne.
DisserviceableDisserviceable Dis*serv"ice*a*ble, a.
Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable;
injurious; harmful; unserviceable. --Shaftesbury. --
Dis*serv"ice*a*ble*ness, n. --Norris. --
Dis*serv"ice*a*bly, adv. DisserviceablenessDisserviceable Dis*serv"ice*a*ble, a.
Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable;
injurious; harmful; unserviceable. --Shaftesbury. --
Dis*serv"ice*a*ble*ness, n. --Norris. --
Dis*serv"ice*a*bly, adv. DisserviceablyDisserviceable Dis*serv"ice*a*ble, a.
Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable;
injurious; harmful; unserviceable. --Shaftesbury. --
Dis*serv"ice*a*ble*ness, n. --Norris. --
Dis*serv"ice*a*bly, adv. DisservingDisserve Dis*serve", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Di?????; p. pr. &
vb. n. Disserving.] [Pref. dis- + serve: cf. F. desservir.]
To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to
hurt; to harm.
Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any
party. --Jer. Taylor. Eyeservice
Eyeservice Eye"serv`ice, n.
Service performed only under inspection, or the eye of an
employer.
Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers. --Col. iii.
22.
Heriot serviceHeriot Her"i*ot, n. [AS. heregeatu military equipment, heriot;
here army + geatwe, pl., arms, equipments.] (Eng. Law)
Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military
accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord
on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute
of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the
decease of a tenant. --Blackstone. Bouvier.
Heriot custom, a heriot depending on usage.
Heriot service (Law), a heriot due by reservation in a
grant or lease of lands. --Spelman. Blackstone. Inservient
Inservient In*serv"i*ent, a. [L. inserviens, p. pr. of
inservire.]
Conducive; instrumental. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
Knight serviceKnight service Knight" serv"ice (Eng. Feud. Law)
A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing
military service. See Chivalry, n., 4. Life-preservingLife-preserver Life"-pre*serv`er
(l[imac]f"pr[-e]*z[~e]rv`[~e]r), n.
An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various
materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the
body while in the water. -- Life"-pre*serv`ing, a. Lip serviceLip Lip (l[i^]p), n. [OE. lippe, AS. lippa; akin to D. lip, G.
lippe, lefze, OHG. lefs, Dan. l[ae]be, Sw. l["a]pp, L.
labium, labrum. Cf. Labial.]
1. One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of
the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips
are organs of speech essential to certain articulations.
Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the
organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.
Thine own lips testify against thee. --Job xv. 6.
2. An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything;
a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.
3. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
4. (Bot.)
(a) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate
corolla. (b) The odd and peculiar petal in the
Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.
5. (Zo["o]l.) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve
shell.
Lip bit, a pod auger. See Auger.
Lip comfort, comfort that is given with words only.
Lip comforter, one who comforts with words only.
Lip labor, unfelt or insincere speech; hypocrisy. --Bale.
Lip reading, the catching of the words or meaning of one
speaking by watching the motion of his lips without
hearing his voice. --Carpenter.
Lip salve, a salve for sore lips.
Lip service, expression by the lips of obedience and
devotion without the performance of acts suitable to such
sentiments.
Lip wisdom, wise talk without practice, or unsupported by
experience.
Lip work.
(a) Talk.
(b) Kissing. [Humorous] --B. Jonson.
To make a lip, to drop the under lip in sullenness or
contempt. --Shak.
To shoot out the lip (Script.), to show contempt by
protruding the lip. Merchant serviceMerchant Mer"chant, a.
Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as,
the merchant service.
Merchant bar, Merchant iron or steel, certain common
sizes of wrought iron and steel bars.
Merchant service, the mercantile marine of a country. --Am.
Cyc.
Merchant ship, a ship employed in commerce.
Merchant tailor, a tailor who keeps and sells materials for
the garments which he makes. Observing
Observing Ob*serv"ing, a.
Giving particular attention; habitually attentive to what
passes; as, an observing person; an observing mind.
Penal servitudeServitude Serv"i*tude, n. [L. servitudo: cf. F. servitude.]
1. 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.
You would have sold your king to slaughter, His
princes and his peers to servitude. --Shak.
A splendid servitude; . . . for he that rises up
early, and goe? to bed late, only to receive
addresses, is really as much abridged in his freedom
as he that waits to present one. --South.
2. Servants, collectively. [Obs.]
After him a cumbrous train Of herds and flocks, and
numerous servitude. --Milton.
3. (Law) A right whereby one thing is subject to another
thing or person for use or convenience, contrary to the
common right.
Note: The object of a servitude is either to suffer something
to be done by another, or to omit to do something, with
respect to a thing. The easements of the English
correspond in some respects with the servitudes of the
Roman law. Both terms are used by common law writers,
and often indiscriminately. The former, however, rather
indicates the right enjoyed, and the latter the burden
imposed. --Ayliffe. Erskine. E. Washburn.
Penal servitude. See under Penal.
Personal servitude (Law), that which arises when the use of
a thing is granted as a real right to a particular
individual other than the proprietor.
Predial servitude (Law), that which one estate owes to
another estate. When it related to lands, vineyards,
gardens, or the like, it is called rural; when it related
to houses and buildings, it is called urban. Personal servitudeServitude Serv"i*tude, n. [L. servitudo: cf. F. servitude.]
1. 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.
You would have sold your king to slaughter, His
princes and his peers to servitude. --Shak.
A splendid servitude; . . . for he that rises up
early, and goe? to bed late, only to receive
addresses, is really as much abridged in his freedom
as he that waits to present one. --South.
2. Servants, collectively. [Obs.]
After him a cumbrous train Of herds and flocks, and
numerous servitude. --Milton.
3. (Law) A right whereby one thing is subject to another
thing or person for use or convenience, contrary to the
common right.
Note: The object of a servitude is either to suffer something
to be done by another, or to omit to do something, with
respect to a thing. The easements of the English
correspond in some respects with the servitudes of the
Roman law. Both terms are used by common law writers,
and often indiscriminately. The former, however, rather
indicates the right enjoyed, and the latter the burden
imposed. --Ayliffe. Erskine. E. Washburn.
Penal servitude. See under Penal.
Personal servitude (Law), that which arises when the use of
a thing is granted as a real right to a particular
individual other than the proprietor.
Predial servitude (Law), that which one estate owes to
another estate. When it related to lands, vineyards,
gardens, or the like, it is called rural; when it related
to houses and buildings, it is called urban. Predial servitudeServitude Serv"i*tude, n. [L. servitudo: cf. F. servitude.]
1. 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.
You would have sold your king to slaughter, His
princes and his peers to servitude. --Shak.
A splendid servitude; . . . for he that rises up
early, and goe? to bed late, only to receive
addresses, is really as much abridged in his freedom
as he that waits to present one. --South.
2. Servants, collectively. [Obs.]
After him a cumbrous train Of herds and flocks, and
numerous servitude. --Milton.
3. (Law) A right whereby one thing is subject to another
thing or person for use or convenience, contrary to the
common right.
Note: The object of a servitude is either to suffer something
to be done by another, or to omit to do something, with
respect to a thing. The easements of the English
correspond in some respects with the servitudes of the
Roman law. Both terms are used by common law writers,
and often indiscriminately. The former, however, rather
indicates the right enjoyed, and the latter the burden
imposed. --Ayliffe. Erskine. E. Washburn.
Penal servitude. See under Penal.
Personal servitude (Law), that which arises when the use of
a thing is granted as a real right to a particular
individual other than the proprietor.
Predial servitude (Law), that which one estate owes to
another estate. When it related to lands, vineyards,
gardens, or the like, it is called rural; when it related
to houses and buildings, it is called urban. Public-service corporation
Public-service corporation Public-service corporation or
sometimes Quasi-public corporation Quasi-public corporation
A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company,
water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a
public calling or to render services more or less essential
to the general public convenience or safety.
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