Definition of serve

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Serve (v. t.) To wind spun yarn, or the like, tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. See under Serving..

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Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard..
Twelfth-night :: Twelfth-night (n.) The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches..
Periscope :: Periscope (n.) an optical instrument of tubular shape containing an arrangement of lenses and mirrors (or prisms), allowing a person to observe a field of view otherwise obstructed, as beyond an obstructing object or (as in submarines) above the surface of the water..
Serve :: Serve (v. t.) To be suitor to; to profess love to.
Attitude :: Attitude (n.) The posture or position of a person or an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty..
Back :: Back (adv.) In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another..
Self-contained :: Self-contained (a.) Having self-control; reserved; uncommunicative; wholly engrossed in one's self.
Defray :: Defray (v. t.) To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc..
Costive :: Costive (a.) Reserved; formal; close; cold.
Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc..
Deserved :: Deserved (imp. & p. p.) of Deserv.
Armed :: Armed (a.) Furnished with whatever serves to add strength, force, or efficiency..
Band :: Band (v. t.) That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
Conserve :: Conserve (n.) A conservatory.
Determinant :: Determinant (n.) That which serves to determine; that which causes determination.
Gyroscope :: Gyroscope (n.) A form of the above apparatus, invented by M. Foucault, mounted so delicately as to render visible the rotation of the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of the earth's motion..
Pyrognostics :: Pyrognostics (n. pl.) The characters of a mineral observed by the use of the blowpipe, as the degree of fusibility, flame coloration, etc..
Prophylactic :: Prophylactic (n.) A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.
Guacho :: Guacho (n.) An Indian who serves as a messenger.
Villus :: Villus (n.) One of the minute papillary processes on certain vascular membranes; a villosity; as, villi cover the lining of the small intestines of many animals and serve to increase the absorbing surface..
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