Senior

In military usage, "senior" may refer to the person longest in continuous service. Webster defines the adjective as meaning "more advanced in life; older in office or dignity; prior in age or rank; elder; " and the noun as " oneoklerin office, or whose entrance upon an office was anterior to that of another: " which may mean, not one who entered upon his present term of office first, but one who has been longest in the office. On the other hand, the word may rijfer to the person, as, a judge, who has served longest under his present commission.2 See Judge, Senior; Junior; Name, 1.