1. A waiting servant; a servant who attends on a gentleman's person.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. A male waiting servant; a servant who attends on gentleman's person; a body servant.
2. A kind of goad or stick with a point of iron.
Valetta
Encyclopedia Britannica
VALETTA, or Valletta. See Malta, vol. xv. pp. 340- 341. The population was 24,854 in 1881, and was estimated at 26,700 in 1888.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 24, p. 42
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1. VALETUDINA'RIAN ,
2. VALETU'DINARY, adjective [Latin valetudinarius, from valetudo, from valeo, to be well.]
3. Sickly; weak; infirm; seeking to recover health.
4. VALETUDINA'RIAN,
5. VALETU'DINARY , noun A person of a weak, infirm or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health.
6. Valetudinarians must live where they can command and scold.
Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm.
A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health.
The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health; infirmity.
Infirm; sickly; valetudinarian.
Servant Roget’s Thesaurus §746
N. subject, liegeman, servant, retainer, follower, henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, attache, official, retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court, attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy, train bearer, cup bearer, waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre, equerry, groom, jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd, barkeeper, bartender, bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper, khansamah, khansaman, khitmutgar, yardman, bailiff, castellan, seneschal, chamberlain, major-domo, groom of the chambers, secretary, under secretary, assistant secretary, clerk, subsidiary, agent, subaltern, underling, understrapper, man, maid, maidservant, handmaid, confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette, amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah, nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid, femme de chambre, femme fille, camarista, chef de cuisine, cordon bleu, cook, scullion, cinderella, potwalloper, maid of all work, servant of all work, laundress, bedmaker, journeyman, charwoman, bearer, chokra, gyp, hamal, scout, serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot, bondsman, bondswoman, bondslave, ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe, villian, villein, beadsman, bedesman, sizar, pensioner, pensionary, client, dependant, dependent, hanger on, satellite, parasite, led captain, protege, ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature, badge of slavery, bonds
V. serve, wait upon, attend upon, dance attendance upon, pin oneself upon, squire, tend, hang on the sleeve of, chore
Adj. in the train of, in one's pay, in one's employ, at one's call, in bonds
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