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adjective

Orderly adj.

1.

Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan.

2.

Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community.

3.

Performed in good or established order; well-regulated. "An orderly... march."

4.

Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders. "Aids-de-camp and orderly men."

Orderly book (Mil.), a book for every company, in which the general and regimental orders are recorded.

Orderly officer, the officer of the day, or that officer of a corps or regiment whose turn it is to supervise for the day the arrangements for food, cleanliness, etc.

Orderly room.

(a)

The court of the commanding officer, where charges against the men of the regiment are tried.

(b)

The office of the commanding officer, usually in the barracks, whence orders emanate.

Orderly sergeant, the first sergeant of a company.

noun

Orderly n. (pl. orderlies)

1.

(Mil.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service. "Orderlies were appointed to watch the palace."

2.

A street sweeper. (Eng.)

adverb

Orderly adv. According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly. "You are blunt; go to it orderly."

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... convention, and had adopted a constitution preparatory to admission to the Union. That constitution was now before the Senate for approval. President Pierce, Stephen A. Douglas, and all the Southern leaders had decided to treat as treasonable acts the efforts of Kansas settlers to secure an orderly government. Their plans for the arrest of the leaders were well advanced and the arrests were actually made on the day after ...

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... and lost my father's best falcon through letting it loose when the falconer was not by to whistle it back. There has been a mighty talking and arguing as to whether such wedlock as ours be lawful, and no man seems rightly to know. That we must be wed again in more orderly fashion all agree, if we are to live together as man and wife; but none will dare to say that we may break the pledge we gave each to the other that day. My father talked at first of moving some high court to set us free; but my mother shook her head ...

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... the arms and accoutrements of our regiments, when he came to inspect Company H he said, "Shentlemens, vatfor you make de pothook out of de sword and de bayonet, and trow de cartridge-box in de mud? I dust report you to Sheneral Bragg. Mine gracious!" Approaching Orderly Sergeant John T. Tucker, and lifting the flap of his cartridge box, which was empty, he said, "Bah, bah, mon Dieu; I dust know dot you ish been hunting de squirrel and de rabbit. Mon Dieu! you sharge yourself mit fifteen tollars for wasting ...

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... top of it. No one could venture to imagine when that hat was new, or how long ago it was that the farm-bailiff went to the expense of purchasing those work-day clothes. But the dirt on his face and neck was an orderly accumulation, such as gathers on walls, oil-paintings, and other places to which soap is not habitually applied; it was not a matter of spills and splashes, like the dirt John Broom disgraced himself with. And ...

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... to absent himself from public worship, which will begin every Sunday morning at eleven o'clock, in the commandant's house, when every one will come clean and orderly, and behave ...

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