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ay or manner of living with respect to conditions, circumstances, character, conduct, occupation, etc.; hence, human affairs; also, lives, considered collectively, as a distinct class or type; as, low life; a good or evil life; the life of Indians, or of miners. That which before us lies in daily life. Milton. By exper…

Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity. He is uncommonly powerful in his own line, but it is not the line of a first-rate man. Coleridge.

The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work. Lamp.

An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.

The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment.

nance; face. [Obs.] All dreary was his cheer and his looking. Chaucer. Looking for, anticipation; expectation. "A certain fearful looking for of judgment." Heb. x. 27.

A man whose occupation is to make malt.

One whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; a seaman or sailor. Chaucer. Mariner's compass. See under Compass.

One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes.

The art or occupation of a mason.

One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.

f infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food, and to polluted drinking water. -- Milk snake (Zoöl.), a harmless American snake (Ophibolus tri…

f infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food, and to polluted water.

makes or deals in millinery; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments.

A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.

The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.

A trade, art, or occupation. [Obs.] In youth he learned had a good mester. Chaucer.

The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.

he habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation. It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life. De Quincey.

One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.