Retainer: alternatives and connections

Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness,…

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A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.

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Of or pertaining to a family; domestic.

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A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.

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An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.

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A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer.

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A male servant.

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Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.

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A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.

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A scalion.

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An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. So…

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property; possession; tenure.

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One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard.

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To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard.

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The act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention.

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One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is su…

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