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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sergeant \Ser"geant\, n. [F. sergent, fr. L. serviens, -entis,
     p. pr. of servire to serve. See {Serve}, and cf. {Servant}.]
     [Written also {serjeant}. Both spellings are authorized. In
     England {serjeant} is usually preferred, except for military
     officers. In the United States {sergeant} is common for civil
     officers also.]


     1. 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.
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              The sergeant of the town of Rome them sought.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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              The magistrates sent the serjeant, saying, Let those
              men go.                               --Acts xvi.
                                                    35.
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              This fell sergeant, Death,
              Is strict in his arrest.              --Shak.
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     2. (Mil.) 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.
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     Note: In the United States service, besides the sergeants
           belonging to the companies there are, in each regiment,
           a sergeant major, who is the chief noncommissioned
           officer, and has important duties as the assistant to
           the adjutant; a quartermaster sergeant, who assists the
           quartermaster; a color sergeant, who carries the
           colors; and a commissary sergeant, who assists in the
           care and distribution of the stores. Ordnance sergeants
           have charge of the ammunition at military posts.
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     3. (Law) A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the
        doctor of the civil law; -- called also {serjeant at law}.
        [Eng.] --Blackstone.
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     4. A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign;
        as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant,
        surgeon. [Eng.]
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     5. (Zool.) The cobia.
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     {Drill sergeant}. (Mil.) See under {Drill}.
  
     {Sergeant-at-arms}, an officer of a legislative body, or of a
        deliberative or judicial assembly, who executes commands
        in preserving order and arresting offenders. See
        {Sergeant}, 1.
  
     {Sergeant major}.
        (a) (Mil.) See the Note under def. 2, above.
        (b) (Zool.) The cow pilot.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Serjeant \Ser"jeant\, Serjeantcy \Ser"jeant*cy\, etc.
     See {Sergeant}, {Sergeantcy}, etc.
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     {Serjeant-at-arms}. See {Sergeant-at-arms}, under {Sergeant}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  serjeant
       n : an English barrister of the highest rank [syn: {serjeant-at-law},
            {sergeant-at-law}, {sergeant}]

















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