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Harvest-home :: Harvest-home (n.) A service of thanksgiving, at harvest time, in the Church of England and in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States..

Service :: Service (n.) 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..

Desk :: Desk (n.) A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession..

Clientele :: Clientele (n.) The persons who make habitual use of the services of another person; one's clients, collectively; as, the clientele of a lawyer, doctor, notary, etc..

Cadet :: Cadet (n.) A young man in training for military or naval service; esp. a pupil in a military or naval school, as at West Point, Annapolis, or Woolwich..

Furlough :: Furlough (a.) Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence..

Knight Service :: Knight service () A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4..

Terrier :: Terrier (n.) Formerly, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, and the like..

Writer :: Writer (n.) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor..

Arms :: Arms (n.) The deeds or exploits of war; military service or science.

Recompense :: Recompense (v. t.) To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate..

Conscript :: Conscript (v. t.) To enroll, by compulsion, for military service..

Bind :: Bind (v. t.) To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service..

Auxiliary :: Auxiliary (n.) Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force..

Volunteer :: Volunteer (a.) One who enters into service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army..

Vigil :: Vigil (v. i.) A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.

Idle :: Idle (superl.) Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate use; unemployed; as, idle hours..

Post-captain :: Post-captain (n.) A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was posted, in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse..

Grind :: Grind (v. i.) To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination..

Gradual :: Gradual (n.) A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.

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