Vocabulary : Serfdom to Sergeantship

Serfdom : The state or condition of a serf.
Serfhood : Alt. of Serfism
Serfism : Serfage.
Serge : A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes. ;; A large wax candle used in the ceremonies of various churches.
Sergeancies : of Sergeancy

Sergeancy : The office of a sergeant; sergeantship.
Sergeant : 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. ;; 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. ;; A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law. ;; A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon. ;; The cobia.
Sergeantcy : Same as Sergeancy.
Sergeantry : See Sergeanty.
Sergeantship : The office of sergeant.

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