1. (n.) 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 subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper.

2. (n.) One in a state of subjection or bondage.

3. (n.) A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.

4. (v. t.) To subject.

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