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To transact business for another. [R.] Brome.

One who transacts business for another; an agent.

A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood. Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother. Wordsworth.

To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear. The apricot and the nectarine may be, and usually are, budded upon the peach; the plum and the p…

The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.

little bud springing from a parent bud. We have a criterion to distinguish one bud from another, or the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring. E. Darwin.

Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier. The water under me was buoyant. Dryden.

Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not. Wharton. Burrill.

of court reporters, when they are forced into day upon one point, are sure to burrow in another. Burke. Burrowing owl (Zoöl.), a small owl of the western part of North America (Speotyto cunicularia), which lives in holes, often in company with the prairie dog.

Only; solely; merely. Observe but how their own principles combat one another. Milton. If they kill us, we shall but die. 2 Kings vii. 4. A formidable man but to his friends. Dryden.

slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison.

To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg. [Prov. or Slang, Eng.] Wright.

To propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some offense or crime.

of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name. The calumniation of her principal counselors. Bacon.

False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction. "Infamouse calumnies." Motley. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Shak.

rt of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which its acts.

A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack.

- Flying camp (Mil.), a camp or body of troops formed for rapid motion from one place to another. Farrow. -- To pitch (a) camp, to set up the tents or huts of a camp. -- To strike camp, to take down the tents or huts of a camp.

One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak.

Canicular year, the Egyptian year, computed from one heliacal rising of the Dog Star to another.