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Officer
·vt To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over.
II. Officer ·noun Specifically, a commissio...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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officer
A person having some command. A term applied both in the royal and mercantile navies to any one of a...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Officer
It is obvious that most, if not all, of the Hebrew words rendered "officer" are either of an indefin...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Second
·noun Aid; assistance; help.
II. Second ·noun The second part in a concerted piece;
— often popula...
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second
The sixtieth part of a minute. A division of a degree of a circle. A term applied both to time and t...
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marine officer
An empty bottle: marine officers being held useless by the seamen. SEA WIT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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officer plant
n.
another name for Christmas-Bush (q.v.), so called «because of its brightred appearance.» (Maiden...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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chief officer
See chief mate
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crack officer
One of the best class.
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flag-officer
A term synonymous with admiral.
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marine officer
An officer of the Royal Marines. Jocularly and witlessly applied to an empty bottle, as being "usele...
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naval officer
One belonging to the royal navy. Also, the person in charge of the stores in a royal dockyard abroad...
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orderly officer
In the army. See officer of the day.
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petty officer
A divisional seaman of the first class, ranking with a sergeant or corporal.
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senior officer
The commanding officer for the time being.
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signal-officer
In a repeating frigate, a signal-midshipman; in a flag-ship, a flag-lieutenant.
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staff-officer
On the general staff of the army, or of a combined force. See staff.
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warrant-officer
Generally one holding his situation from particular boards, or persons authorized by the sovereign t...
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Second-class
·adj Of the rank or degree below the best highest; inferior; second-rate; as, a second-class house; ...
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Second-rate
·adj Of the second size, rank, quality, or value; as, a second-rate ship; second-rate cloth; a secon...
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Second-sight
·noun The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future event...
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Second-sighted
·adj Having the power of second-sight.
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Thirty-second
·adj Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided.
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Twelfth-second
·noun A unit for the measurement of small intervals of time, such that 1012 (ten trillion) of these ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Second Postern
Between London Wall and Fore Street, east of Aldermanbury Postern (Rocque, 1746-London Guide, 1758, ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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second-captain
Commanders under captains in the navy, of late.
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second-counter
See counter.
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second-futtocks
The frame-timbers scarphed on the end of the futtock-timbers.
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second-hand
A term in fishing-boats to distinguish the second in charge.
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second-rate
Vessels of seventy-four guns (on the old scale).
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Temple, the Second
After the return from captivity, under Zerubbabel (q.v.) and the high priest Jeshua, arrangements we...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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to play second fiddle
is to take an inferior part in any project or undertaking. A metaphor borrowed from a musical perfor...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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officer of the day
A military officer whose immediate duty is to attend to the interior economy of the corps to which h...
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officer of the watch
The lieutenant or other officer who has charge of, and commands, the watch.
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top the officer, to
To arrogate superiority.
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John, Second Epistle of
Is addressed to "the elect lady," and closes with the words, "The children of thy elect sister greet...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Peter, Second Epistle of
The question of the authenticity of this epistle has been much discussed, but the weight of evidence...
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Timothy, Second Epistle to
Was probably written a year or so after the first, and from Rome, where Paul was for a second time a...
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Peter, Second Epistle Of
The following is a brief outline of the contents of this epistle: The customary opening salutation i...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Corinthians, Second Epistle to the
Shortly after writing his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul left Ephesus, where intense exciteme...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Corinthians, Second Epistle To The
was written a few months subsequent to the first, in the same year-about the autumn of A.D. 57 or 58...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Esdras, The Second Book Of
This exists in a Latin translation, the Greek being lost. Chapters 3-14 consist of a series of angel...
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Thessalonians, Second Epistle To The
appears to have been written from Corinth not very long after the first, for Silvanus and Timotheus ...
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Chronicles, First And Second Books Of
the name originally given to the record made by the appointed historiographers in the kingdoms of Is...
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Kings, First And Second Books Of
originally only one book in the Hebrew canon, from in the LXX. and the Vulgate the third and fourth ...
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John, The Second And Third Epistles Of
The second epistle is addressed to an individual woman. One who had children, and a sister and niece...
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