noun. One who serves in an army.

noun. An enlisted person or a noncommissioned officer.

noun. An active, loyal, or militant follower of an organization.

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noun. A nonreproductive ant or termite that has a large head and powerful jaws.

noun. One of a group of honeybees that swarm in defense of a hive.

intransitive verb. To be or serve as a soldier.

intransitive verb. To make a show of working in order to escape punishment.

phrasal verb. To continue to do something, especially when it is difficult or tedious; persevere.

noun. A scorpænoid fish, Gymnapistes marmoratus, of Tasmania.

noun. A labroid fish, Pseudolabrus miles, of New Zealand.

noun. A percoid fish, Etheostoma cœruleum, of the United States.

noun. An artificial fly used in bass-fishing.

To serve as a soldier: as, to go soldiering.

To bully; hector.

To make a pretense or show of working, so as to be kept upon the pay-roll; shirk; feign sickness; malinger. See soger, 2.

To make temporary use of (another man's horse).

noun. One who receives pay, especially for military service.

noun. A person in military service

noun. One who serves in the land forces, as opposed to one serving at sea.

noun. Hence, one who obeys the commands and contends in the cause of another.

noun. One of the rank and file, or sometimes including non-commissioned officers as opposed to commissioned officers.

noun. Emphatically, a brave warrior; a man of military experience, skill, or genius; a man of distinguished valor; one possessing the distinctive carriage, looks, habits, or traits of those who make a profession of military service: as, he is every inch a soldier.

noun. In zoology: One of that section of a colony of some kinds of ants which does the fighting, takes slaves, etc.; a soldier-ant.

noun. The corresponding form in a colony of white ants or termites.

noun. A soldier-beetle.

noun. A sort of hermit-crab; also, a fiddler-crab.

noun. The red gurnard, Trigla cuculus.

noun. A red herring.

noun. One who makes a pretense of working, but is really of little or no use; one who works no more than is necessary to secure pay. See soger, 2.

noun. plural A name of the red campion (Lychnis diurna), of the ribwort (Plantago lanceolata), and of various other plants. Britten and Holland, Eng. Plant Names.

noun. The stump, or unsmoked part, of a cigar. See snipe, 3.

noun. One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.

noun. Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.

noun. A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction.

noun. The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.)

noun. One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest. See Termite.

noun. an American carabid beetle (Chauliognathus Americanus) whose larva feeds upon other insects, such as the plum curculio.

noun. any hemipterous insect of the genus Podisus and allied genera, as the spined soldier bug (Podius spinosus). These bugs suck the blood of other insects.

noun. The fiddler crab.

noun. a bright-colored etheostomoid fish (Etheostoma cœruleum) found in the Mississippi River; -- called also blue darter, and rainbow darter.

noun. any one of numerous species of small dipterous flies of the genus Stratyomys and allied genera. They are often bright green, with a metallic luster, and are ornamented on the sides of the back with markings of yellow, like epaulets or shoulder straps.

noun. a large geometrid moth (Euschema militaris), having the wings bright yellow with bluish black lines and spots.

noun. a kind of orchis (Orchis militaris).

intransitive verb. To serve as a soldier.

intransitive verb. To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task.

noun. A member of an army, of any rank.

noun. A guardsman.

noun. A member of the Salvation Army.

noun. A piece of buttered bread (or toast), cut into a long thin strip and dipped into a soft-boiled egg.

"Note that _sepoy_, as colloquially it is called, but _sipahee_, as in books it is often written, does not mean Hindoo or Hindoo soldier, but is simply the Hindoo word for _soldier_.] [Footnote 61: '_The laurelled majesty_,' &c."

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