Word Meanings - KITCHENER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kitchen servant; a cook. Carlyle.

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• KITCHEN MIDDENS
  Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada
• KITCHEN
  coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. 1. A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery. Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden.
• KITCHEN-RY
  The body of servants employed in the kitchen. Holland.
• KITCHENETTE
  A room combining a very small kitchen and a pantry, with the kitchen conveniences compactly arranged, sometimes so that they fold up out of sight and allow the kitchen to be made a part of the adjoining room by opening folding doors.
• SERVANT
  1. One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his
• SERVANTESS
  A maidservant. Wyclif.
• KITCHENMAID
  A woman employed in the kitchen. Shak.
• KITCHENER
  A kitchen servant; a cook. Carlyle.
• SERVANTRY
  A body of servants; servants, collectively.
• MANSERVANT
  A male servant.
• CONSERVANT
  Having the power or quality of conservation.
• OBSERVANTLY
  In an observant manner.
• OBSERVANTINE
  One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.
• BOND SERVANT
  A slave; one who is bound to service without wages. If thy brother . . . be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant. Lev. xxv. 39, 40.
• EYESERVANT
  A servant who attends faithfully to his duty only when watched.
• MAIDSERVANT
  A female servant.
• INOBSERVANT
  Not observant; regardless; heedless. Bp. Hurd. -- In`ob*serv"ant*ly, adv.
• UNDERSERVANT
  An inferior servant.
• OBSERVANT
  1. Taking notice; viewing or noticing attentively; watchful; attentive; as, an observant spectator; observant habits. Wandering from clime to clime observant stray'd. Pope. 2. Submissively attentive; obediently watchful; regardful; mindful;