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A business meeting of any religious community.

y or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book.

The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions. Shak.

name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidæ, as the stonechat, and whinchat. Bush chat. (Zoöl.) See under Bush.

A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels. [Russia]

A bargain or contract; an agreement about a matter in dispute, such as a debt; a business compact.

A branching perennial plant (Cichorium Intybus) with bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also cultivated for its roots and as a salad plant; succory; wild endive. See Endive.

An official administering a prefecture of China; a prefect, supervising the civil business of the hsiens or districts comprised in his fu (which see).

usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.

One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.

The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.

hot weather, bad air, or poor milk, and especially fatal in large cities. -- Cholera morbus, a disease characterized by vomiting and purging, with gripings and cramps, usually caused by imprudence in diet or by gastrointestinal disturbance. -- Chicken cholera. See under Chicken. -- Hog cholera. See under Hog. -- S…

A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.

Same as Choriambus.

Christlike. H. Bushnell.

tion Cicero; a Ciceronian phrase or expression. "Great study in Ciceronianism, the chief abuse of Oxford." Sir P. Sidney.

Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.

The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.

paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular.

locution. Swift. Circumlocution office, a term of riducle for a governmental office where business is delayed by passing through the hands of different officials.