Clerk

·noun A clergyman or ecclesiastic.

II. Clerk ·noun An assistant in a shop or store.

III. Clerk ·noun A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.

IV. Clerk ·noun One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.

V. Clerk ·noun A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.