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Escheator :: Escheator (n.) An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them..

Exercise :: Exercise (n.) The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty..

To :: To (prep.) In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of application, to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs with a following noun which limits their action. Its sphere verges upon that of for, but it contains less the idea of design or appropriation; as, these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to the mind; duty

Commissary :: Commissary (n.) One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner..

Pontage :: Pontage (n.) A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one..

Purser :: Purser (n.) A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets, etc..

Rite :: Rite (n.) The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of religion or other solemn duty; a solemn observance; a ceremony; as, the rites of freemasonry..

Servifor :: Servifor (n.) An undergraduate, partly supported by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities..

Barratry :: Barratry (n.) A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo..

Tronator :: Tronator (n.) An officer in London whose duty was to weigh wool.

Roughrider :: Roughrider (n.) One who breaks horses; especially (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer in the British cavalry, whose duty is to assist the riding master..

Keelage :: Keelage (n.) The right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering a port; also, the duty or toll..

Extra-official :: Extra-official (a.) Not prescribed by official duty.

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

Protest :: Protest (v.) A declaration made by a party, before or while paying a tax, duty, or the like, demanded of him, which he deems illegal, denying the justice of the demand, and asserting his rights and claims, in order to show that the payment was not voluntary..

Obsequy :: Obsequy (n.) The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural..

Attendant :: Attendant (v. t.) Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir..

Province :: Province (n.) The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.

Tutorship :: Tutorship (n.) The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage..

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