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Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.

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  • SERVING
    a & n. from Serve. Serving board , a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. -- Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant. -- Serving mallet , a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes. -- Serving man, a male servant,
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • TEGUMENT
    1. A cover or covering; an integument. 2. Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.
  • SERVO-MOTOR
    A relay apparatus; specif.: An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • SERVILELY
    In a servile manner; slavishly.
  • COVERLET
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • SERVILENESS
    Quality of being servile; servility.
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • CONSIST
    1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
  • SERVABLE
    Capable of being preserved. (more info) 1. Capable of being served. 2. Etym:
  • CONSISTORIAN
    Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
  • SERVITORSHIP
    The office, rank, or condition of a servitor. Boswell.
  • SERVER
    1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph.
  • SERVIAN
    Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe. -- n.
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
    1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
  • CONSISTORY
    The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
  • COVERTNESS
    Secrecy; privacy.
  • SERVALINE
    Related to, or resembling, the serval.
  • DISSERVE
    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. (more info) Etym:
  • RESERVE
    1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • DESERVEDNESS
    Meritoriousness.
  • CONSERVATIONAL
    Tending to conserve; preservative.
  • MISOBSERVE
    To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
  • SUBSERVIENCE; SUBSERVIENCY
    The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. Bentley.
  • INSERVE
    To be of use to an end; to serve.
  • PUBLIC-SERVICE 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.
  • OBSERVANCY
    Observance.
  • MANSERVANT
    A male servant.
  • DESERVE
    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
  • BOND SERVICE
    The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.

 

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