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Word Meanings - VETERANIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To reënlist for service as a soldier. Gen. W. T. Sherman.

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  • SOLDIERLY
    Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike. "Soldierly discipline." Sir P. Sidney.
  • SOLDIERLIKE
    Like a soldier; soldierly.
  • SOLDIER
    1. To serve as a soldier. 2. To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task. Note: In this sense the vulgar pronounciation is jocosely preserved. It needs an opera glass to discover whether the leaders are pulling,
  • SOLDIERING
    1. The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier. 2. The act of feigning to work. See the Note under Soldier, v. i., 2.
  • 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.
  • SOLDIERSHIP
    Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier. Shak.
  • 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
  • SOLDIERY
    1. A body of soldiers; soldiers, collectivelly; the military. A camp of faithful soldiery. Milton. 2. Military service. Sir P. Sidney.
  • SOLDIERESS
    A female soldier.
  • SOLDIERWOOD
    A showy leguminous plant of the West Indies. The flowers have long tassels of purple stamens.
  • REENLISTMENT
    A renewed enlistment.
  • 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.
  • UNSOLDIERED
    Not equipped like a soldier; unsoldierlike. J. Fletcher.
  • WASHERMAN
    A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others.
  • 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.
  • ENLIST
    1. To enter on a list; to enroll; to register. 2. To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men. 3. To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons
  • 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
  • WATER SOLDIER
    An aquatic European plant with bayonet- shaped leaves.
  • INLIST
    See ENLIST

 

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