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Tribune :: Tribune (n.) An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls..

Partisan :: Partisan (a.) Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps..

Information :: Information (v. t.) A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment..

Water Bailiff :: Water bailiff () An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels..

Soldier :: Soldier (n.) Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer..

Fauteuil :: Fauteuil (n.) Chair of a presiding officer.

Staff :: Staff (n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major..

Kirkman :: Kirkman (n.) A clergyman or officer in a kirk.

Ordinary :: Ordinary (n.) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate..

Beadle :: Beadle (v.) An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc..

Soldier :: Soldier (n.) One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.

Brevet :: Brevet (n.) A commission giving an officer higher rank than that for which he receives pay; an honorary promotion of an officer.

Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery..

Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted..

Lieutenant :: Lieutenant (n.) A commissioned officer in the army, next below a captain..

Assizer :: Assizer (n.) An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc..

Wardroom :: Wardroom (n.) A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom.

Vicarious :: Vicarious (prep.) Acting of suffering for another; as, a vicarious agent or officer..

Judge :: "Judge (v. i.) A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose..

Retired :: Retired (a.) Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician..

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