(n.) A soldier who marches and fights on foot; a foot soldier.
(n.) A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.
(n.) Formerly, a servant who ran in front of his master's carriage; a runner.
(n.) A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire.
(n.) A moth of the family Lithosidae; -- so called from its livery-like colors.
Example Sentences:
(1) To butcher TS Eliot: I have seen the mercury of my thermometer flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my sheets drenched in sweat at 3am, and snicker, And in short, I was too hot.
(2) My own strong reaction to the novel stemmed from Austen's depiction of society, a world of conspicuous consumption (Sir Walter Elliot cannot stand the idea of retrenching when he mismanages his finances and prefers to leave his house rather than be seen with a footman or a picture less) and his arrogant, good-looking daughter Elizabeth can't be seen without all the props, either.
(3) His father appeared in a non-speaking role as a footman in Doctor Who.
(4) Two years ago the Queen took out an injunction against the Daily Mirror to prevent further disclosures by its reporter Ryan Parry, who spent several weeks employed at Buckingham Palace as a footman.
(5) Never was he happier than when distracting himself with the sort of quirky odds and ends that a more rigorous mind would have dismissed as insignificant, such as the people who "strengthen a sickly child's back" by rubbing it with snails, or the footman who considered enlisting in the army but "knew I should be rejected because I was getting bald".
Lackey
Definition:
(v.) An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.
(v. t.) To attend as a lackey; to wait upon.
(v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1.20am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 3, top of the 4th Lackey gets ahead of Freese 1-2, if he could work around the error it would be- Freese takes strike three!
(2) thuringiensis towards brown-tail moth, as compared to its action on lackey moth, may be due to the bactericidal properties of some intestine microorganisms of brown-tail moth, and also the absence in their intestines of microorganisms stimulating growth of the entomopathogenic bacteria.
(3) Levine would not approve; Kanoti would delay the biopsy for several months to explore alternatives and leave time for reflection; and Lackey would approve based on the volunteer's knowledge and acceptance of his loss of function and his desire to find some way to participate in his wife's treatment.
(4) 3.26am GMT Pitching change John Lackey is in for his first postseason relief appearance in 11 years.
(5) John Lackey is back out, probably getting sick of this run support b.s.. Jon Jay hits a tricky flyball that Ellsbury can track down for out one.
(6) Various organisms of the intestine microflora of lackey moth display bacteriostatic action towards Bac.
(7) Lackey gets Freese in an 0-2 hole, and strikes him out with a 1-2 curveball for out number two.
(8) Rays 3 - Red Sox 5, top of the 5th And this is a game again, James Loney drives in both baserunners by hitting an old school Lackey pitch for a double!
(9) The media guide proclaimed Lackey as part of Three Aces along with homegrown left-hander Jon Lester and 2007 ALCS MVP Josh Beckett.
(10) In the second (and final) series of Grandma's House last year, the career of "the character" Simon Amstell couldn't even get a gig presenting his aunt's local charity quiz; his only chance of going to America was as his semi-boyfriend's lackey.
(11) 2.07am BST Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 0, top of the 4th And John Lackey is backey for the fourth.
(12) John Lackey would have to pitch well enough to make fans forget that he was very recently the most hated athlete in Boston .
(13) @HunterFelt October 31, 2013 1.49am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 6, top of the 5th Jon Jay is up, it's important for Lackey to keep that 1-0 game mentality going here.
(14) On Lackey's first inning: Nick Holden (@nick4glengate) @HunterFelt In cricket, we'd call that "bowling to his field".
(15) Thankfully for Lackey, Jon Jay pops up and Molina can't score on the out.
(16) Richie (@richiemetsoh) @HunterFelt "Pedroia playing deep shallow" #mccarverwatch October 31, 2013 12.55am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 0, top of the 3rd Lackey isn't fooling Matt Carpenter though, who wisely jumps ahead and assumes a strike and knocks a single.
(17) This time Lackey gets him to swing and miss and just look bad on strike three.
(18) If a commitment to the impossibility of objective reporting means that any position, however bizarre, is no better or worse than any other, the ultimate effect, which may be the intended one, is to suggest that all media organisations are equally untrustworthy – and to elevate any journalistic errors by the BBC or New York Times into indisputable signs they are lackeys of their own governments.
(19) 3.15am BST Pitching change Lackey is out, Breslow is in.
(20) Still, obstacles such as spoken-for jersey numbers have never seemed to deter determined athletes, and we’ve since learned that Lackey was happy to pony up for his favorite digits.