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's principal articles of trade; a course of business pursued aside from one's regular occupation.

One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.

A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.

One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.

The art or occupation of a smith; smithing. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Connection; participation; partnership. [R.] The meanest of the people and such as have the least society with the acts and crimes of kings. Jer. Taylor.

The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier.

Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert. How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people. Lam. i. 1. Let that night be solitary; let no joyful voice come therein. Job iii. 7.

To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty. All the time he could spare from the necessary cares of his weighty charge, he Knolles.

which a person is specially distinguished; an object of special attention; a special occupation or object of attention; a specialty. On these two general heads all other specialities are depedent. Hooker. Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape…

A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin. She spake to spinster to spin it out. Piers Plowman. The spinsters and the knitters in the sun. Shak.

One whose occupation is to make spurs. B. Jonson. "The saddlers and spurriers would be ruined by thousands." Macaulay.

An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.

r department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment. By spending this day [Sunday] in religious exercises, we acquire new strength and resolution to perform God's will in our several stations the week following. R. Nelson.

One whose occupation is to make stays.

The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.

Constipation; also, constriction of the vessels or ducts.

gent (originally a woman), especially a person who does something with skill or as an occupation; as in spinster (originally, a woman who spins), songster, baxter (= bakester), youngster.

One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.