ser as kierate

(Eng. seraskier, ate.」 The office of a seraskier. of Servia. Serb, s. [Native word.) A native or inhabitant found.) sergeant sě-rene-ne , subst. [Eng. serene, ne .) The quality or state of being serene; serenity. "In the serenene of a healthful conscience." -Feltham Resolves, pt. i., res. 5. *sẽ rěn-i-tüde, s . (SERENE.) Calmne , seren serb i-an, subst . [After Serbia Servia, where ity. Min.: The same as MILOS CHINE (q. v.). Ser-bo-ni-an, a (See def.) A term applied to a bog or lake of Serbonis, lying between the mount- ains Casius and Damieta in Egypt, or one of the more eastern mouths of the Nile. It was surrounded on all sides by hills of loose sand. which being car- ried into the water by high winds so thickened the lake that it could not be distinguished from the land. Whole armies are reported to have been swallowed up in it. "A gulf profound as that Serbonían bog Where armies whole have sunk." .. Milton: P. L. , ii. 592. Hence, the phrase Serbonian bog is used proverbially to expre a difficulty or complication from which there is no way of extricating ones self; a me , a confusion. "I know of no Serbonian bog deeper than a £5 rating would prove to be."- B . Disraeli , in London Times. ser-çel, s. [SARCEL.]