To wait on

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	To attend, as a servant; to perform services for; as, to wait on a gentleman; to wait on the table.
	To attend; to go to see; to visit on business or for ceremony. - Milton.
	To follow, as a consequence; to await.
	To look watchfully at; to follow with the eye; to watch. - Dr. H. More.
	To attend to; to perform. - Bacon.
(Falconry)	To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung; - said of a hawk. - Num. iii. 10.

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lady-in-waiting
lie in wait
ready and waiting
wait
wait out

wait up
waiting
waiting line
waiting list

The other servants, indoors, are all women; and instead of a footman to wait on him at dinner, the admiral has a parlor-maid.

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