Word Meanings - MANSERVANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A male servant.

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.
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;