Index of English words, starting with "se"

(1) - Serge (n.) A large wax candle used in the ceremonies of various churches.
(2) - Serge (n.) A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes.

(1) - Sergeancy (n.) The office of a sergeant; sergeantship.

(1) - Sergeant (n.) The cobia.
(2) - Sergeant (n.) A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
(3) - Sergeant (n.) A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.
(4) - Sergeant (n.) 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.
(5) - Sergeant (n.) 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.