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Bond
·noun A vassal or serf; a slave. II. Bond ·noun Moral or political duty or obligation. III. Bond ·...

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Bond
An obligation of any kind (Num. 30:2, 4, 12). The word means also oppression or affliction (Ps. 116:...

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Service
·noun The act of serving the ball. II. Service ·- ·Alt. of Service. III. Service ·noun Hence, a mu...

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service
The profession; as a general term, expresses every kind of duty which a naval or military man can be...

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Bail bond
·- Special bail in court to abide the judgment. II. Bail bond ·- A bond or obligation given by a pr...

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Bond servant
·- A slave; one who is bound to service without wages. ...

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Bond Court
East out of Walbrook at No.31, but no thoroughfare (P.O. Directory). In Walbrook Ward. Not a thoroug...

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bail-bond
The obligation entered into by sureties. Also when a person appears as proxy for the master of a ves...

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bond-man
A harsh method in some ships, in keeping one man bound for the good behaviour of another on leave. ...

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bottomry-bond
See bottomree ...

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Bord service
·- Service due from a bordar; bordage. ...

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Knight service
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Knight's service. II. Knight service ·- A tenure of lands held by knights on cond...

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Knight's service
·add. ·- Service such as a knight can or should render; hence, good or valuable service. II. Knight...

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Secret service
·add. ·- The detective service of a government. In the United States, in time of peace the bureau of...

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Service cap
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Service hat. ...

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Service hat
·add. ·- A cap or hat worn by officers or enlisted men when full-dress uniform, or dress uniform, is...

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Service uniform
·add. ·- The uniform prescribed in regulations for active or routine service, in distinction from dr...

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recruiting service
Robbing on the highway. ...

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service-berry
A wild fruit common to the British provinces in America, described by Sir Geo. Simpson as "a sort of...

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active service
Duty against an enemy; operations in his presence. Or in the present day it denotes serving on full-...

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divine service
Ordered by the articles of war, whenever the weather on a Sunday will allow of it. ...

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foreign service
Vessels or forces stationed in any part of the world out of the United Kingdom. The opposite of home...

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grab service
Country vessels first employed by the Bombay government against the pirates; afterwards erected into...

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home-service
The Channel service; any force, either naval or military, stationed in and about the United Kingdom....

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long-service
A cable properly served to prevent chafing under particular use. ...

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merchant service
The mercantile marine. ...

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on service
On duty. ...

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preventive service
The establishment of coast-guards at numerous stations along the shores of the United Kingdom for th...

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short-service
Chafing geer put on a hemp cable for a short range. ...

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Post-obit bond
·- A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds hi...

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bond of bottomry
An authority to borrow money, by pledging the keel or bottom of the ship. (See bottomry.) ...

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Civil Service Commission
·add. ·- In the United States, a commission appointed by the President, consisting of three members,...

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Civil Service Reform
·add. ·- The substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of...

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Public-service corporation
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Quasi-public corporation. ...

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continuous service men
Those seamen who, having entered for a period, on being paid off, are permitted to have leave, and r...

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mend the service
Put on more service to the cable, or any part of the rigging chafed. ...

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points of service
The principal details of duty, which ought to be executed with zeal and alacrity. ...

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Head, Sir Francis Bond
(1793-1875) Traveller, essayist, and biographer, served in the Engineers, went to South America as ...

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training-ship for the merchant service
A vessel properly equipped with instructors and means to rear able-bodied lads for the merchant serv...

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