A fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset.

Without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition / Important; weighty; not insignificant / Really intending what is said (or planned, etc); in earnest; not jocular or deceiving

(colloquial, dialect) In a serious manner; seriously.

A combination of events which have come together by chance to make a surprisingly good or wonderful outcome.

A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, attached like a slave to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.

The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot.

A palace of a sultan. / The palace of the Grand Seignior in Constantinople. / (by figurative extension) A profligate or decadent residence of a rich person.

A person employed in the civil service; a government employee.

A servant employed in a grand or middle class household.

(military) UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks. / The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.