Word Meanings - BUTTONS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livry. Dickens.
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- ALLUSION
1. A figurative or symbolical reference. 2. A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint. - DICKENS
The devil. I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak. - SERVANT
1. One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his - SERVANTESS
A maidservant. Wyclif. - SERVANTRY
A body of servants; servants, collectively. - BUTTONS
A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livry. Dickens. - MANSERVANT
A male servant. - CONSERVANT
Having the power or quality of conservation. - OBSERVANTLY
In an observant manner. - OBSERVANTINE
One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants. - BOND SERVANT
A slave; one who is bound to service without wages. If thy brother . . . be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant. Lev. xxv. 39, 40. - EYESERVANT
A servant who attends faithfully to his duty only when watched. - MAIDSERVANT
A female servant. - INOBSERVANT
Not observant; regardless; heedless. Bp. Hurd. -- In`ob*serv"ant*ly, adv. - UNDERSERVANT
An inferior servant. - OBSERVANT
1. Taking notice; viewing or noticing attentively; watchful; attentive; as, an observant spectator; observant habits. Wandering from clime to clime observant stray'd. Pope. 2. Submissively attentive; obediently watchful; regardful; mindful;