Definition of duty

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Duty (n.) That which is due; payment.

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Stray :: Stray (a.) Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err..
Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Wanting in power to influence or bind; as, weak ties; a weak sense of honor of duty..
Faith :: Faith (n.) Fidelity to one's promises, or allegiance to duty, or to a person honored and beloved; loyalty..
Bondage :: Bondage (a.) Obligation; tie of duty.
Paramount :: Paramount (a.) Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preeminent; as, a paramount duty..
Deviation :: Deviation (n.) The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty..
Quartermaster :: Quartermaster (n.) An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies..
Moral :: Moral (a.) Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules..
Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations..
Vert :: Vert (n.) Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer..
Commission :: Commission (n.) A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission..
Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.
Physician :: Physician (n.) A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine..
Imperative :: Imperative (a.) Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order..
Call :: Call (n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty..
Marine :: Marine (a.) A solider serving on shipboard; a sea soldier; one of a body of troops trained to do duty in the navy.
Undue :: Undue (a.) Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law..
Deforce :: Deforce (v.) To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty..
Exigenter :: Exigenter (n.) An officer in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was make out exigents. The office in now abolished.
Offend :: Offend (v. t.) To oppose or obstruct in duty; to cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
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