Word Meanings - HAVILDAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant. Havildar major, a native sergeant major in the East Indian army.

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• INDIANEER
  An Indiaman.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• MAJORSHIP
  The office of major.
• SERGEANTY
  Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only. Grand sergeanty, a particular kind of tenure by which the tenant was bound to do some special honorary service to the king in person, as to carry
• CORRESPOND
  1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• CORRESPONDINGLY
  In a corresponding manner; conformably.
• NONCOMMISSIONED
  Not having a commission. Noncommissioned officer , a subordinate officer not appointed by a commission from the chief executive or supreme authority of the State; but by the Secretary of War or by the commanding officer of the regiment.
• MAJORATION
  Increase; enlargement. Bacon.
• SERGEANT
  A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law. Blackstone. 4. A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
• NATIVE
  1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
• SERGEANTRY
  See SERGEANTY
• NATIVE STEEL
  A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.
• MAJORCAN
  Of or pertaining to Majorca. -- n.
• CORRESPONDENT
  One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance. (more info) 1. One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter. Macualay. 2. One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to
• MAJOR
  Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone. Major axis , the greater axis. See Focus, n., 2. -- Major key , a key in which one and two, two and three, four and five, five and six and seven, make major
• MAJORAT
  Property, landed or funded, so attached to a title of honor as to descend with it. (more info) 1. The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.
• MAJOR-DOMO
  A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer.
• OFFICER
  1. To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over. Marshall. 2. To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits.
• CORRESPONDENCY
  See CLARKE
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• REGNATIVE
  Ruling; governing.
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
• EAST INDIAN
  Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.
• DENOMINATIVE
  Connotative; as, a denominative name. 3. Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable. The least denominative part of time is a minute. Cocker. (more info) 1. Conferring a denomination or name.
• GLUTINATIVE
  Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.
• CONGLUTINATIVE
  Conglutinant.