- Army officer
- Army rank
- NCO rank
- Non-commissioned officer
- A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the
United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a
company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels.
- Belonging or relating to the body; bodily.
- Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In
this sense now usually written corporeal.
- Army rank
- NCO rank
- Non-commissioned officer
- See Grant become a soldier
- 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.
- 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.
- A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of
the civil law; -- called also serjeant at law.