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- Sergeant - n. - Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery.
- Sergeant - n. - In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc.
- Sergeant - n. - A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.
- Sergeant - n. - A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
- Sergeant - n. - The cobia.
- Sergeantcy - n. - Same as Sergeancy.
- Sergeantry - n. - See Sergeanty.
- Sergeantship - n. - The office of sergeant.
- Sergeanty - n. - Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only.
- Reduce - n. - To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.
- Sergeant - n. - A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.