ordnance sergeant (ordnanssar"jent)

A non-commi ioned staff-officer whose duty it is to receive, preserve, and i ue all ordnance, arms, ammunition, or other ordnance stores at a military post or station, under the regulations of the War Department. ordo (ôr'do), n.; pl. ordines (ôr'di-nēz). [L., order: see order, n.] 1. In pros., a colon or a. 1. Regular. For he that stondeth clere and ordinate , And proude happis suffreth under slide. Boetius , MS. Soc. Antiq. 134, f. ( Hall i well .) Ordinate figures are such as have all their sides and all their angles equal. Ray , Works of Creation. 21. Well-regulated; orderly; proper; due. A wedded man, in his estaat, Lyveth a lyf blisful and ordinaat . Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 40. 3. In entom., placed in one or more regular rows: as, ordinate spines, punctures, spots, etc. - Ordinate eyes, eyes arranged in definite order, as the simple eyes of a spider. cate ordinate. See applicate. ordinatet (or'di-nat), v. t. of ord in are, ordain, order, 1. To ordain; appoint. spotted: see ordinate and maculate.] Having rows of maculæ or spots.