(n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the
more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to
attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest
traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and
two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the
houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands,
and another attends the Court Chancery.
(n.) In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned
officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct
recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc.
(n.) A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of
the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.
(n.) A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign;
as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
(n.) The cobia.
