1. (n.) A clergyman or ecclesiastic.

2. (n.) A man who could read; a scholar; a learned person; a man of letters.

3. (n.) A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.

4. (n.) One employed to keep records or accounts; a scribe; an accountant; as, the clerk of a court; a town clerk.

5. (n.) An assistant in a shop or store.

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