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A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.

A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings. Shak. The writer better scrivener than clerk. Fuller.

One who sculptures; one whose occupation is to carve statues, or works of sculpture.

One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman. Able seaman, a sailor who is practically conversant with all the duties of common seamanship. -- ordinary seaman. See…

One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew. [Obs.]

A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.

ay the day when we become the second people upon earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation. Landor.

The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper. slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience and love. "O God . . . whose service is perfect freedom." Bk. of Co…

To make to assume specified place, condition, or occupation; to put in a certain condition or state (described by the accompanying words); to cause to be. The Lord thy God will set thee on hihg. Deut. xxviii. 1. I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother. Matt. x. 35. Eve…

t of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.

The act or occupation of one who sews.

One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.

One whose occupation is to shear cloth.

Pastoral life or occupation.

Irresolution; hesitation; also, occupation with trifles. She lost not one of her forty-five minutes in picking and choosing, - - no shilly-shally in Kate. De Quincey.

A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.

One whose occupation is to construct ships; a builder of ships or other vessels.

One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots.

by the Mikado on the military governor of the eastern provinces of Japan. By gradual usurpation of power the Shoguns (known to foreigners as Tycoons) became finally the virtual rulers of Japan. The title was abolished in 1867. [Written variously, Shiogun, Shiogoon, etc.]