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;