Word Meanings - CHESS-APPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The wild service of Europe .

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• SERVICE
  The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpoena or an attachment. (more info) 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for
• SERVICEABLE
  1. Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous. "Serviceable to religion and learning". Atterbury. "Serviceable tools." Macaulay. I know thee well,
• SERVICE; SERVICE
  A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small,
• SERVICEAGE
  Servitude. Fairfax.
• EUROPEAN
  Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants. On the European plain, having rooms to let, and leaving it optional with guests whether they will take meals in the house; -- said of hotels.
• SERVICE UNIFORM
  The uniform prescribed in regulations for active or routine service, in distinction from dress, full dress, etc. In the United States army it is of olive-drab woolen or khaki-colored cotton, with all metal attachments of dull-finish bronze, with
• SERVICE CAP; SERVICE HAT
  A cap or hat worn by officers or enlisted men when full-dress uniform, or dress uniform, is not worn. In the United States army the service cap is round, about 3½ inches high, flat-topped, with a visor. The service hat is of soft felt of khaki
• EUROPEANIZE
  To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages. A state of society . . . changed and Europenized. Lubbock.
• PLEUROPERITONEUM
  The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided. Note: Peritoneum
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• BOND SERVICE
  The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.
• UNSERVICE
  Neglect of duty; idleness; indolence. Massinger.
• PLEUROPERITONEAL
  Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.
• PLEUROPERIPNEUMONY
  Pleuropneumonia.
• SUPERSERVICEABLE
  Overofficious; doing more than is required or desired. "A superserviceable, finical rogue." Shak.
• KNIGHT SERVICE
  A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.
• DISSERVICEABLE
  Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable. Shaftesbury. -- Dis*serv"ice*a*ble*ness, n. Norris. -- Dis*serv"ice*a*bly, adv.
• KNIGHT SERVICE; KNIGHT'S SERVICE
  1. The military service by rendering which a knight held his lands; also, the tenure of lands held on condition of performing military service. By far the greater part of England is held of the king by knight's service. . . . In
• EYESERVICE
  Service performed only under inspection, or the eye of an employer. Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers. Col. iii. 22.
• CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
  The substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of the civil service. esp. the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office.
• CONCERT OF EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONCERT
  An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers to take only joint action in the Eastern Question.
• PLEUROPERICARDIAL
  Of or pertaining to the pleura and pericardium.