SPage 181
- English Word Serve Definition 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.
- English Word Serve Definition To contribute or conduce to; to promote; to be sufficient for; to satisfy; as, to serve one's turn.
- English Word Serve Definition To answer or be (in the place of something) to; as, a sofa serves one for a seat and a couch.
- English Word Serve Definition To treat; to behave one's self to; to requite; to act toward; as, he served me very ill.
- English Word Serve Definition To work; to operate; as, to serve the guns.
- English Word Serve Definition To bring to notice, deliver, or execute, either actually or constructively, in such manner as the law requires; as, to serve a summons.
- English Word Serve Definition To make legal service opon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.); as, to serve a witness with a subp/na.
- English Word Serve Definition To pass or spend, as time, esp. time of punishment; as, to serve a term in prison.
- English Word Serve Definition To copulate with; to cover; as, a horse serves a mare; -- said of the male.
- English Word Serve Definition To lead off in delivering (the ball).
- English Word Serve Definition 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.
- English Word Serve Definition 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.
- English Word Serve Definition To perform domestic offices; to be occupied with household affairs; to prepare and dish up food, etc.
- English Word Serve Definition 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.
- English Word Serve Definition To be of use; to answer a purpose; to suffice; to suit; to be convenient or favorable.
- English Word Serve Definition To lead off in delivering the ball.
- English Word Served Definition of Serve
- English Word Server Definition One who serves.
- English Word Server Definition A tray for dishes; a salver.
- English Word Servian Definition Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe.
- English Word Servian Definition A native or inhabitant of Servia.
- English Word Service Definition Alt. of Service
- English Word Service Definition 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.
- English Word Service Definition 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.
- English Word Service Definition The deed of one who serves; labor performed for another; duty done or required; office.
- English Word Service Definition Office of devotion; official religious duty performed; religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial service.
- English Word Service Definition Hence, a musical composition for use in churches.
- English Word Service Definition 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.
- English Word Service Definition Useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes interest or happiness; benefit; avail.
- English Word Service Definition Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.