Servage: m. Seruitude, slauerie, bondage, thralldome.
Servans: m. An Order of blacke Fryers.
Servant: m. ante: f. Seruing, attending, waiting on, obseruing, obseruant, obsequious vnto; also, helping, steadding, auailing. Fief servant. A fief thats held by homage and fealtie, of a fief dominant; an inferior, or mesne fief. Gentilshommes servans. Gentlemen waiters, those that attend on the King at meale-times. Iour servant, & iournée servante. The day appointed for the hearing, and deciding of a cause.
Servante: f. A maid, or woman, seruant (especially of a meane, or inferior, degree.)
Servantin: m. The Sole-fish tearmed, a kind foole; ¶Marseillois. Serve. A Stue for fish; also, a Mue for fowle; also, the hearbe Sage.
Servément. Seruilely, by villenage, by a seruile or base tenure.
Servi: m. ie: f. Serued, obserued. Servi de son homage. That hath receiued his homage in due time. Entrer de fief servi. The homage, &c, due by a tenant at his first entrie, done well enough by another; as by an elder brother for a younger; by a husband for his wife; by a guardian for his pupill, or ward.
Serviable: com. Seruiceable, officious, diligent, obsequious; pliant; behoofefull.
Serviablement. Seruiceably, officiously, obsequiously, diligently; behoofefully.
Service: f. Seruice, attendance; dutie, obedience; also, wages, or hire for seruice; also, diuine seruice, (publike) prayer vnto almightie God; whence; La service des morts. Dirges, Obits, Trentalls, prayers for the dead. Service de l'ost. Looke Ost. Service de plaids. Apparance made, counsell giuen; any attendance yeelded, or seruice done, by a vassall in his Lords Courts. Services des vignes. The pathes, or alleyes, which are made ouerthwart a Vineyard. Cheval de service. A great horse, or horse of seruice; due from a vassall to his Lord feudal (or in lieu of him 60 s Tourn: as by the customes of Orleans, Montargis, Chasteauneuf, Chartres, & Dreux; or 60 s and a pennie Tourn: by the customes of Le grand Perche; or 100 s Tourn: as by the customes of Anjou, and Maine;) And this either once during a Lords, or vaßals life, or at euerie change of Lord, and vassall. Denier de service. Looke Denier. Beau service fait amis, & vray dire ennemis: Pro. Dutifulneße procureth friends, truth enemies; obsequious attendance winneth loue, true and plaine dealing hate.
Servicial: m. A glister.
Serviette: f. A table napkin.
Nouër les deux bouts de sa serviette ensemble. Seeke Nouër.
Servir. To serue, attend, wait on, obserue, be obsequious vnto; also, to helpe, stead, auaile, assist, fit ones turne, doe good, be profitable or behoofefull, vnto.
Servir le fief. A man to doe homage, fealtie, and all other seruices whereto he is tyed by his tenure.
Servir son maistre. To purge, vntruße a point, goe to the stoole.
Servir les plaids de son seigneur. As before, in Service de plaids.
Se servir de. To vse, occupie, make a benefit, or take the aduantage, of. Se servir de toutes peaux. as vnder Peau. Mal sert qui ne parsert: Pro. He's but an ill seruant thats not an all-seruant. Qui sert commun nul ne le paye, & s'il defaut chascun l'abbaye: Prov. The seruant of a Comminaltie finds enow to correct his errors, but none to reward his deserts. Qui sert dieu il a bon maistre: Pro. &, Qui sert le Roy il a bon maistre: Pro. Looke Maistre. Assez demande qui bien sert: Prov. Good seruice, of it selfe, demaunds reward.
Servis: m. The Cens, and other small yearelie rights, or duties, payed by the tenants of Inheritances vnto Lord of the soyle, in acknowledgement of his direct seigniorie.
Serviteur: m. A seruant, seruitor, seruing creature, seruing man; an attendant, or waiter. Fortune n'espargne ny serviteur, ny maistre: Prov. looke Fortune. Servitude: f. Seruitude, slauerie, bondage. Mieux vaut servitude en paix que seigneurie en guerre: Pro. Better be peaces vassall, then warfares marshall.
Servitute: f. A dutie wherein one peece of ground, and the poßessor thereof, is lyable, or subiect, vnto another. Hommes de servitute. A kind of villeins, or seruile tenants, lyable to their Lords taxations while they liue; and when they die, their sonnes must buy their possessions of him, or else he seises, and holds them; and their daughters (if they had no sonnes) must loose the soyle, and take such husbands, and portions, as he is pleased to allot them.
Servivi: m. An act, or Certificate of the actuall seruices performed by an officer, who thereupon receiues the wages, and is allowed the priuiledges, due vnto his place.
Sery: m. The Shrew-mouse. ¶Bourguignon. Sesame: m. The oylie pulse, or graine Sesamum. Sesamin: m. ine: f. Of Sesamum. Sesamoïde. Bastard Woad; an hearbe of two kinds, a great, and a little one; either of them diuided into two other kinds; viz. the great one into great bastard Woad, and barren Weld; and the little one into small bastard Woad, and Buckhorne Weld, which is Mathiolus his little Sesamoïdes. Sesamoïdes. Os sesamoïdes. Looke Os. Sesel, & Seseli. The hearbe Seseli, Seseleos, Hartwort. Seseli de Candie. Seseleos, or Hartwort of Candia. Seseli Ethiopique. Shrub Seseli, Hartwort of Ethiopia. Seseli de Marseille. Marsellian Seseli; large, and broad Cummin. Seseli de la Morée. Hartwort of Peloponnesus. Seseli Peloponnesien. The same.
Sesne. The mother of wine; the white or mouldie spots which float on the top of old wine.
Sesquialtere: com. One and a halfe, or halfe as much againe; as three in respect of two, &c.
Sesquin: m. A kind of base coyne.
Sesquitiers: m. erce: f. As much, and a third part more.
Sessile: com. Sitting, seeming to sit; easie to sit on; of a low stature.
Verruë sessile. A kind of hard, broad, flat, and blackish wart.
