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Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office. The trade of merchandise being the most lucrative, may bear usury at a good rate. Bacon.

ludicrous predicament as Van Troil's chapter on the snakes of Iceland, which delivers its business in one summary sentence, announcing, that snakes in Iceland -- there are none. De Quincey.

The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber. [U.S.]

One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment. [U.S.]

; to devour; hence, to swallow up. [Obs.] Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear. Bacon.

Bad administration; bad management of any business, especially of public affairs. [Written also maleadministration.]

mong Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly. Hence:

To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer. Leave them to manage for thee. Dryden .

Business dealing; negotiation; arrangement. He had great managements with ecclesiastics. Addison .

A person who conducts business or household affairs with economy and frugality; a good economist. A prince of great aspiring thoughts; in the main, a manager of his treasure. Sir W. Temple.

One who undertakes to discharge a specific business commission; a mandatory. Wharton.

A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous. Erskine.

A person who makes a business of taking care of people's hands, especially their nails. [Men] who had taken good care of their hands by wearing gloves and availing themselves of the services of a manicure. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

The act or business of stealing or kidnaping human beings, especially with a view to e

ematically and clearly; to sketch; to plan; as, to map, or map out, a journey; to map out business. I am near to the place where they should meet, if Pisanio have mapped it truly. Shak.

Any intimate or close union. Marriage brokage. (a) The business of bringing about marriages. (b) The payment made or demanded for the procurement of a marriage. -- Marriage favors, knots of white ribbons, or bunches of white flowers, worn at weddings. -- Marriage settlement (Law), a settlement of property in view, an…

To disguise; to cover; to hide. Masking the business from the common eye. Shak.

That which one has to treat, or with which one has to do; concern; affair; business. To help the matter, the alchemists call in many vanities out of astrology. Bacon. Some young female seems to have carried matters so far, that she is ripe for asking advice. Spectator.

e's self; to have to do; -- [Obs.] Barrow. Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business. Tyndale.

A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.