wirica, Arabick; Skinner from sérge, 2. Important; weighty ; not trifling. German, a mat.] A kind of woollen rl hence to London on a serious matter. cloth. Sbakspeare The same wool one man felts into a hat, an There's nothing serious in mortality; All is but toys. other weaves into cloth, another into kersey or Sbakspeare. serge, and another into arras. Hele. SE'RIOUSLY. adv. [from serious.] Grave. Ye weavers, all your shuttles throw, ly; solemnly; in earnest; without le. And bid broad-cloths and serges grow. Gay. vity. SERGEANT. n. s. (sergent, Fr. sergente, It cannot but be matter of very dreadful consiItalian, from serviens, Latin.] deration to any one, sober and in his wits, to I. An officer whose business it is to exe. think seriously with himself, what horror and confusion must needs surprise that man, at the cute the commands of magistrates. last day of account, who had led his whole life Had I but time, as this fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest, oh! I could tell. Sbaksp. by one rule, when God intends to judge him by another. South, When it was day, the magistrates sent the ser All laugh to find geants, saying, Let these men go. Acts. Unthinking plainuess so o'erspread thy mind, 2. A petty officer in the army. That thou could'st seriously persuade the crowd This is the sergeant, To keep their oaths, and to believe a God. Who like a good and hardy soldier fought. Sbak. Dryden. 3. A lawyer of the highest rank under a Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Lactantius, and judge. Arnobius, tell us, that this martyrdom first of None should be made sergeants, but such as all made them seriously inquisitive into that reliprobably might be held to be judges after- gion, which could endue the mind with so much wards. Bacon, strength, and overcome the fear of death, nay, 4. It is a title given to some of the king's raise an earnest desire of it, though it appeared in all its terrors. Addison, servants : as, sergeant chirurgeon ; that is, a chirurgeon servant to the king. SE'RIOUSNESS. n. s. [from serious.] GraSERGEANTRY, n. s. [from sergeant.] vity; solemnity ; earnest attention. That spirit of religion and seriousness vanished Grand sergeantry is that where one holdeth lands of the king by service, which he ought to all at once, and a spirit of libertinism and pro faneness started up in the room of it. Atterbury. do in his own person unto him: as to bear the king's banner or his spear, or to lead his host, The youth was received at the door by a ser vant, who then conducted him with great silence or to be his marshal, or to blow a horn, when he and seriousness to a long gallery, which was darkseeth his enemies invade the land; or to find a ened at noon-day. Addison. man at arms to fight within the four seas, or else to do it himself; or to bear the king's sword be SERMOCIN A'TION, n. so (sermocinatio, fore him at his coronation, or on that day to be Latin.] The act or practice of making his sewer, carver, butler, or chamberlain. Petit sergeantry is where a man hoideth land of the SERMOCINA’TOR. n. s. [sermocinor, Lat.) king, to yield him yearly some small thing to A preacher; a speechmaker. ward his wars; as a sword, dagger, bow, kuife, These obstreperous sermocinators make easy spear, pair of gloves of mail, a pair of spurs, or impression upon the minds of the vulgar. Howei. such like. Cowell. SERMON, M. so (sermon, Fr. sermo, Lat.) SERGEANTSHIP. n. s. [from sergeant.] A discourse of instruction pronounced The office of a sergeant by a divine for the edification of the SE'RIES. n. s. [serie, Fr. series, Latin.] people. 1. Sequence : order. As for our sermons, be they never so sound Draw out that antecedent, by reflecting briefly and perfect, God's word they are not, as the upon the text, as it lies in the series of the epi- sermons of the prophets were; no, they are but stle Ward, ambiguously termed his word, because his word The chasms of the correspondence I cannot is commonly the subject whereof they treat, and supply, having destroyed too many letters to must be the rule whereby they are framed. preserve any series. Pope. Hooker. 2. Succssion; course. This our life, exempt from publick haunt, This is the series of perpetual woe, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running Which thou, alas! and thine are born to know. brooks, Pope. Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. SE’RIOUS. adj. [serieux, Fr. serius, Lat.) Sbakspeare. 1. Grave; solemn; not volatile ; not light Sermons he heard, yet not so many As left no time to practise any; of behaviour. Ah! my friends! while we laugh, all things He heard them reverentiy, and then are serious round about us: God is serious, who His practice preach'd them o'er again. Crasbaw. exerciseth patience towards us; Christ is serious, Many, while they have preached Christ in their sermons, have read a lecture of atheism in who shed his blood for us; the Holy Ghost is their practice. South. serious, who striveth against the obstinacy of our hearts; che holy scriptures bring to our ears the His preaching much, but more his practice, wrought; most serious things in the world; the holy sacra A living sermon of the truths he taught. Dryden. ; ments represent the most serious and awful mat ters; the whole creation is serious in serving To SERHON. v. a. (sermoner, Fr. from God, and us; all that are in heaven or hell are the noun.] serious : how then can we be gay? To give these 1. To discourse as in a sermon. excellent words their full force, it should be Some would rather have good discipline delic known that they came not from the priesthood, vered plainly by way of precept, or serinoned at but the court; and from a courtier as eminent large, ihan thus cloudily inwrapped in allegorias England ever boasted, Young cal devices. Spenser. speeches. SER 2. To tutor; to teach dogmatically, to Traverse, before he splits on Belgia's plain, lesson. And, lost in sand, creeps to the German main? Come, sermon me no farther: Blackmore. No villanous bounty yet hath pass'd my heart. SE'RPENTINE. n. s. [dracantium.] An Sbakspeare, herb. Ainsworth. SE'RMOUNTAIN, or Seseli. n. s. (silex, SERPENTINE Stone. n. s. Latin.) A plant. There were three species of this stone SERO'sity. n. s. [serosité, French.] Thin known among the ancients, all resem. or watery part of tne blood. bling one another, and celebrated for the In these the salt and lixiviated serosity is divid same virtues. The one was green, vaed between the guts and the bladder; but it remains undivided in birds. Broren, riegated with spots of black, thence callThe tumour of the throat, which occasions the ed the black ophites; another, called the difficulty of swallowing and breathing, proceeds white ophites, was green also, but va. from a serosity obstructing the glands, woich may riegated with spots of white : the third be watery, æderratose, or schirrous, according to was called tepiiria, and was of a grey the viscosity of the humour. Arbuthnot. SE’ROUS. adj. [ sereux, Fr. serosus, Lat.) colour, variegated with small black spots. The ancients tell us, that it was 1. Thin; watery. Used of the part of the blood which separates in congelation a certain remedy against the poison of the bite of serpents; but it is now just from the grumolis or red part. ly rejected. Hill. 2. Adapted to the serum. Accept in good part a bottle made of a serThis disease is commonly an extravasation of pentine stone, which hath the quality to give any serum, received in some cavity of the body; for wine or water, that shall be infused therein for there may be also a dropsy by a dilatation of the four-and-twenty hours, the taste and operation serous vessels, as that ottne ovarium. Arbutónot. of the spa-water, and is very medicinable for the SE’RPENT. n. s. (serpens, Latin.] An cure of the spleen and gravel. Wotton, animal that moves by undulation with- SERPENT's Tongue. n. s. [ophioglosson.) out legs. They are often venomous. An herb, Ainsworth. They are divided into two kinds: the SERPET. n. s. A basket. Ainsworth. viper, which brings young; and the SERPI'GINOUS. adj. [from serpigo, Latin.] snake, that lays eggs. Diseased with a serpigo. The skin behind her ear downwards became And in her right hand bore a cup of gold, sergiginous, and was covered with white scales. With wine and watcr fill'd up to the height; Wiseman. In which a serpent did himself unfold, SERPIGO. n. s. (Lat.) A kind of tctter. That horror made to all that did behold. For thy own bowels, which do call thee sire, Fairy Queen. Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum, For ending thee no sooner. Sbakspeores Most serpent like, upon the very heart. Shaksp. She had a node, with pains on her right leg, They, or under ground, or circuit wide, and a serpigo on her right hand. Wiseman With serpent error wand'ring, found their way. Milton. To SERR. v. a. (serrer, French.] To drive The chief I challeng'd: he, whose practis'd wit hard together; to crowd into a little Knew all the serpent mazes of deceit, space. Not received into use, nor de. Eludes my search. Pope. serving reception. SE'R PENTINE. adj. (serpentinus, Latin ; The frowning and knitting of the brows is a from serpent.] gathering or serring of the spirits, to resist in some measure; and also this knitting will follow 1. Resembling a serpent. upon earnest studying, though it be without dise I craved of him to lead me to the top of this like. Bacon. rock, with meaning to free him from so serper:t- Heat attenuates and sends forth the spirit of a ine a companion as I am. Sidney. body, and upon that the more gross parts conThis of ours is described with legs, wings, a tract and serr themselves together. Bacer. serpentine and winding tail, and a crest or comb SE'RRATE. , adj. (serratus, Lat.) Formsomewhat like a cock. Brown. SE'RRATED. S ed with jags or indenNothing wants, but that thy shape Like his, and colour serpentine, may shew tures like the edge of a saw. Thy inward fraud. Milton. All that have serrate teeth are carnivorous. The figures and their parts ought to have a Ray. serpentine and flaming form naturally : these The common heron hath long legs for wading, sorts of outlines have I know not what of lite a long neck answerable thereto to reach prey, a and seeming motion in them, which very much wide throat to pouch it, and long toes with resembles the activity of the flame and serpent. strong hooked talons, one of which is remarkDryden. ably serrate on the Ige. Derbam. í his stick is usually knotted, and always arm2. Winding like a serpent ; anfractuous. ed: one of them with a curious shark's tooth Nor can the sun near an inch long, and indented or serrated on Perfect a circle, or maintain his way both edges: a scurvy weapon. Greru, One inch direct; but where he rose to-day SERRATION. n. š. (trom serra, Latin.] He comes no more, but with a cozening line Steals by that point, and so is serpentine, Dorse. Formation in the shape of a saw. His hand th' adorned firmament display'd, SE’RRATURE. n. s. [from serra, Latin.] Those serpentine yet constant motions made. Indenture like teeth of saws. Sandy.. These are serrated on the edges; but the sera How many spacious countries docs the Rhine, ratures are deeper and gļosser than in any of In winding banks, and mazes serpentine, the rest. Woodwarda } most. T. SE'RRY. v. a. (serrer, French ; serrato,' The same mess should be served up again for Italjan.) To press close ; to drive hard supper, and breakfast next morning. Arbuthnet. together. For serry, Bacon uses serr; 6. To be subservient or subordinate to. but neither serr nor serry are received. Bodies bright and greater should not serve The less not bright. Milton, With them rose A forest huge of spears; and thronging helms 7. To supply with any thing : as, the cuAppear’d, and serried shields in thick array, rate served iwo churches. Of death immeasurable. Milton. They that serve the city shall serve it out of Foul dissipation follow'd, and forc'd rout; all the tribes of Israel. Ezekiel Nor serv'd it to relax their serried files. Milton. 8. To obey in military actions : as, he SERVAN 1.1.5. [servant, Fr. serpus, Lat.] served the king in three campaigns. 1. One who attends another, and acts at 9. To be sufficient to. his command: the correlative of master. If any subject, interest, or fancy has recomUsed of man or woman. mended, their reasoning is after their fashion; We are one in fortune; both it serves their curn. Locke. Fell by our servants, by those men we lov'd 10. To be of use to; to assist ; to promote. Shakspeare, When a storm of a sad mischance beats upon I had rather be a country servant maid, our spirits, turn it into some advantage, by obThan a great queen with this condition. Shakspo serving where it can serve another end, either of He disdain'd not religion or prudence. Taylor. Thenceforth the form of servant to assume. He consider'd every creature Milton Most opportune might serve his wiles. Miltcr For master or for servant here to call II. To help by good offices. Was all alike, where only two were all. Dryd. Shall he thus serve his country, and the muse 2. One in a state of subjection. Unusual. The tribute of her just applause abuse ? Tats. Being unprepar'd, 12. To comply with; to submit to. Our will became the servant to defect, They think herein we serve the time, because Which else should free have wrong'd. Shaksp. therebý we either boid or seek prefernent. 3. A word of civility used to superiours or Hooker, equals. 13. To satisfy ; to content. This subjection, due from all men to all men, As the former empty plea served the sottish is something more than the compliment of Jews, this equally scrves these to put them inos course, when our betters tell us they are our a fool's paradise, by feeding their hopes, withhumble servants, but understand us to be their out changing their lives. Soutb. slaves, Swift. Nothing would serve them then but riding. 10 SURVANT. v. a. (from the noun] L'Estrange. To subject. Not in use. One half-pint bottle serves them both to dine, And is at once their vinegar and wine. Pope. My affairs Are servanted to others: though I owe 14. To stand instead of any thing to one. My revenge properly, remission lies The dull Aat falsehood serves for policy; In Volscian breasts. Shakspeare. And, in the cunning, truth itself's a lye. Pope. TO SERVE. v.a. (servir, French; servio, 15. (se servir de, French.) TO SERVE him. Latin.] self of. To make use of. A mere Gal. To work for. licism. Because thou art my brother, shouldse thou A complete brave man must know solidly the therefore serve me for nought? Genesis. main end he is in the world for; and withai how 2. To attend at command. to serve kimself of the divine s high contemplaA goddess among gods ador'd, and serv'd tions, of the metaphysician's subrile speculations, By angels numberless, thy daily train. Miitos and of the natural philosopher's minute observa 3. To obey servilely or meanly. ations. Digby. When wealthy, shew thy wisdom noć to be They would serve themselves of this form. To wealth a servant, but make wealth serve thee. Taylor, Denbam. I will serve myself of this concession. 4. To supply with food ceremoniously. Cbillingworth. It is much more easy for men to serve their Others, pamper'd in their shameless pride, Are serv'd in plate, and in their chariots ride. own ends of those principles, which they do not put into men, but tind there. Tillotson. Dryden. If they elevate themselves, 't is only to fall 3. To bring meat as a menial attend.int : from a higher place, because they serve themwith in or up : with in, as meat dressed selves of other men's wings, neither understandin the kitchen is brought into another ing their use nor virtue. Dryden. room; with up, as the room of repast 16. To treat; to requite: in an ill sense : is commonly higher than the kitchen. as, he served me ungratefully. Bid chem cover the table, serve in the meat, 17. [In divinity.] To worship the Supreme and we will come in to dinner. Sbakspeare. Being. Soon after our dinner was served in, which Matters hid leave to God, hím serve and fear, was right good viands, both for bread and meat: diilton. we had also drinks of three sorts, all wholesome 18 T. SERVE a warrant. To seize an and good. Bacon. Besmeared with the horrid juice of sepia, they offender, and carry to justice. danced a little in phantastick postures, retired a 19. TO SERVE an office. To discharge any while, and then returned, se ving up a banquet onerous and publick duty. as at solemn funerals. Taylor. Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept vith avenging dames she palace buro'd. Dryd, sheep. Hwa, a We will give thge this also, for the service By oppressing and betraying me, which thou shalt serve wich me. Genesis. Thou might'st have sooner got another service, Sbakspeare. 2. To be in subjection. Thou hast made me to serve with thy sins; These that accuse him are a yoke of his disthou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. carded men; very rogues, now they be out of Isaiab. Sbakspeare. A court, properly a fair, the end of it trade 3. To attend; to wait. and gain; for none would go to service that Martha was cumbered about much serving, thinks he has enough to live well of himself. and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister Temple. hath left me to serve alone? Luke. 4. To engage in the duties of war under 4. Any thing done by way of duty to a command superiour. Both more or less have given him the revolt; That service is not service, so being done, And none serve with him but constrained things, But being so allow'd. Sbakspeare. Whose hearts are absent too. Sbakspeare. This poem was the last piece of service I did Many noble gentlemen came out of all parts for my master king Charles. Dryden of Italy, who had before been great commanders, s. Attendance on any superiour. but now served as private gentlemen without Madam, I entreat true peace of you, pay. Knolles. Which I will purchase with my duteous service. s. To produce the end desired. Shakspeere. The look bewrayed, that, as she used these Riches gotten by service, though it be of the best rise, yet, when gotten by flattery, may be ornaments not for herself, but to prevail with another, so she feared that all would not serve. placed amongst the worst. Bacon, Sidacy. 6. Profession of respect uttered or sent. 6. To be sufficient for a purpose. I am a woman, lacking wit To make a seemly answer to such persons; Pray do my service to his majesty. Sbakspeare. 7. Obedience; submission. Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law Shakspeare. 7. To suit; to be convenient. God requires no man's service upon hard and We have the summary of all our griefs, unreasonable terms. Tillotson. Sbakspeare. session depends. Although they built castles and made free- holders, yet were there no tenures and services Sbakspeare. reserved to the crown; but the lords drew all Read that; 't is with the royal signet sign'd, the respect and dependency of the common peoAnd given me by the king, when time should. ple unto themselves. Davies. serve, To be perus'd by you, 9. Actual duty; office. Dryden. The order of human society cannot be pre8. To conduce; to be of use. served, nor the services requisite to the support Churches, as every thing else, receive their of it be supplied, without a distinction of stachief perfection from the end whereunto they tions, and a long subordination of offices. Rogers. Hooker. 10. Employment; business. If stations of power and trust were constantly such sort as serveth best to inform and persuade made the rewards of virtue, men of great abilia the minds of them, who otherwise neither could rics would endeavour to excel in the duties of a por would greatly regard our necessities. Hooker. religious life, in order to qualify themselves for Who lessens thee, against his purpose serves To manifest the more thy might. publick service. Milton. Swift. First investigate the variety of motions and II. Military duty. figures made by the organs which serve for arti- When he cometh to experience of service culation, and the variety of matter to which those abroad, or is put to a piece or pike, he maketh a articulations are severally applied. Holder. worthy soldier. Sperser. Fashion is, for the most part, nothing but the At the parliament at Oxford, his youth, and ostentation of riches; and therefore the high want of experience in sea-service, had somewhat price of what serves to that, rather increases been shrewdly touched, even before the sluices than lessens its vent. Locke. of popular liberty were yet Set open. Wetten. Our victory only served to lead us on to fur- 12. A military achievement: ther visionary prospects.. Swift. Such fellows will learn you by rote where ser9. To officiate or minister : as, he served bices were done, at such and such a breach. at the publick dinner. Sbakspears. SERVICE. n. s. [service, Fr. servitium, 13. Purpose ; use. Latin.] All the vessels of the king's house are not for uses of honour; some be common stuff, and for 1. Menial office; low business done at the mean services, yet profitable. Spelerard command of a master. 14. Useful office; advantage conferred. The banish'd Kent, who in disguise The stork's plea, when taken in a net, was, Follow'd his king, and did him service the service she did in picking up venomous creaImproper for a slave. Sbakspears L'Estrange 2. Attendance of a servant. The clergy prevent themselves from doing Both fell by our servants, by those men we much service to religion, by affecting so much to lov'd most : converse with each other, and caring so little ta A most unnatural and faithless service. Sbeksp. mingle with the laity. Swift 3. Place; office of a servant. Gentle streams visit populous towns in thei I have served prinee Florizel; but now I am course, and are at once of ornament and servis out of service. Shekspcare. to them. serve. tures. Poga } ash. That service may really be done, the medicine 1. Slavish ; dependant ; mean. must be given in larger quantities. Mead. Fight and die, is death destroying death ; 55. Favour. Where fearing dying, pays death servile breath. To thee a woman's services are due, Sbakspeare. My fool usurps my body. Shakspeare. From imposition of strict laws to free 16. Publick office of devotion. Acceptance of large grace, from servile fear According to this form of theirs, it must stand 'To filial. Milton. for a rule, No sermon, no service. Hooker. Ev'n fortune rules no more a seroile land, If that very service of God in the Jewish syna Where exil'd tyrants still by turns command. gogues, which our Lord did approve and sanctify Pope. with his own presence, had so large portions of 2. Fawning; cringing. the law and prophets, together with the many The most servile fattery is lodged the most prayers and psalms read day by day, as equal in easily in the grossest capacity; for their ordia manner the length of ours, and yet in that re- nary conceit draweth a yielding to their greaters, spect was never thought to deserve blame; is it and then have they not wit to discern the right now an offence, that the like measure of time degrees of duty. Sidneg. is bestowed in the like manner? Hooker: She must bend the servile knee, I know no necessity why private and single And fawning take the splendid robber's boon. abilities should quite justle out and deprive the Tbainsok. church of the joint abilities and concurrent gifts SE'R YILELY. adv. [from servile.] Meanof many learned and godly men, such as the ly; slavishly. composers of the service-book were. K. Charles. 'T' each changing news they chang'd affections The congregation was discomposed, and divine bring, service broken off. Watts. And sérvilely from fate expect a king. Dryden, 17. Course; order of dishes. He affects a singularity in his actions and Cleopatra made Antony a supper sumptuous thoughts, rather than servilely to copy from the and royal; howbeit there was no extraordinary wisest. Swift. service seen on the board. Hakowili. SE'RVILENESS. 18. A tree and fruit. [sorbus, Latin.) SERVI'LITY. n. s. [from servile.] The flower consists of several leaves, which 1. Subjection; involuntary obedience. are placed orbicularly, and expand in form of a What, besides this unhappy servility to cusrose, whose flower-cup afterwards becomes a tom, can possibly reconcile men, that own christfruit shaped like a pear or medlar; to which ianity, to a practice widely distant from it? must be added, pennated leaves like that of the Government of the Tongue. Miller. October is drawn in a garment of yellow and 2. Meanness; dependance ; baseness. carnation; in his left hand a basket of services, 3. Submission from fear. medlars, and other fruits that ripen late. The angels and dæmons, those by their sube Peachan. serviency, and these by the servility of their SE'RVICE ABLE. adj. (servissable, old Fr. obedience, manifestly declared Christ and his from service.) apostles to be vested with an authority derived from their Lord. West. 1. Active; diligent; officious. 4. Slavery ; the condition of a slave. He was sent to the king's court, with letters from that officer, containing his own serviceable To be a queen in bondage, is more vile Than is a slave in base servility; diligence in discovering so great a personage; adding withal more than was true of his conjec. SERVING-MAN. m. s. [serve and man.] For princes should be free. Shakspeare. tures. Sidney I know thee well, a serviceable villain; A menial servant. As duteous to the vices of thy mistress Your niece did more favours to the duke's As badness could desire. Slakspeart. serving-man than ever she bestowed on me. 2. Useful; beneficial. Sbakspeare, Religion hath force to qualify all sorts of men, Just-in the nick; the cook knock'd thrice, And all the waiters in a trice and to make them, in publick affairs, the more serviceable; governors the apter to rule with His summons did obey : conscience; inferiors, for conscience sake, the Each serving-man, with dish in hand, willinger to obey. Hooker, March'd boldly up, like our train'd band, So your father charg'd me at our parting, Presented, and away. Suckling Be serviceable to my son. Sbakspeare. With Dennis you did ne'er combine, · His own inclinations were to confine himself Not you, to steal your master's wine; to his own business, and be serviceable to reli Except a bottle now and then, gion and learning. Atterbury. To welcome brother serving-men. Swift. A book to justify the revolution archbishop SE'R VITOR. 1. s. [serviteur, French.] Tillotson reconimended to the king, as the most I. Servant; attendant. A word obsolete. serviceable treatise that could have been pub- This workman, whose servitor nature is, being lished then. Særift. only one, the heathens imagining to be more, SE'RVICE ABLENESS. n. s. [from service gave him in the sky the name of Jupiter; in the air, of Juno; in the water, of Neptune; in able.) the earth, of Vesta and Ceres. Hooker. 1. Officiousness; activity. Thus are poor servitors, He might continually be in her presence, When others sleep upon their quiet beds, shewing more humble serviceableness and joy to Constrain'd to watch in darkness, rain, and cold. content her than ever before. Sidney, Skakspeare. 2. Usefulness ; beneficialness. Fearful commenting All action being for some end, its aptness to Is leadien servitor to dull delay; be com nanded or forbidden must be founded Delay leads impotent and snail-pac'd beggary. upon its serviceableness or disserviceableness to Shulsperre. some end. Norris. 2. One who acts under another; a fol. SERVILE. adj. [servil, French ; servilis, lower. Latin.] Our Norman conqueror gave uxay to lissero |