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One who violates a truce, covenant, or engagement.

licated, involved knot that does not readily untie; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagement; -- called also true-lover's knot.

t. or Poetic] To bide tryst, to wait, at the appointed time, for one with whom a tryst or engagement is made; to keep an engagement or appointment. The tenderest-hearted maid That ever bided tryst at village stile. Tennyson.

gain or increase in trade. -- To turn one's hand to, to adapt or apply one's self to; to engage in. -- To turn out. (a) To drive out; to expel; as, to turn a family out of doors; to turn a man out of office. I'll turn you out of my kingdom. Shak.

One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office. His lordship is his majesty's turnspit. Burke.

Not attached; not adhering; having no engagement; free.

To disengage, as a clutch.

in, tents. -- Under fire, exposed to an enemy's fire; taking part in a battle or general engagement. -- Under foot. See under Foot, n. -- Under ground, below the surface of the ground. -- Under one's signature, with one's signature or name subscribed; attested or confirmed by one's signature. Cf. the second Note un…

To undertake; to engage in; to hazard. [Obs.] I have moved already Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans To undergo with me an enterprise. Shak.

To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt. To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt. Milton.

One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business. Beau. & Fl.

The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business. Hakluyt.

e condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.

of a common axis, or are all turned to one side. Unilateral contract (Law), a contract or engagement requiring future action only by one party.

Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.

The principles, or the system, of combination among workmen engaged in the same occupation or trade.

To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking.

To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot. Sacharissa's captive fain Would untie his iron chain. Waller. Her snakes untied, sulphurous waters drink. Pope.

chin in water; to come up with one's companions; to come up with the enemy; to live up to engagements. As a boar was whetting his teeth, up comes a fox to him. L'Estrange.

Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free; as, vacant hours. Religion is the interest of all; but philosophy of those . . . at leisure, and vacant from the affairs of the world. Dr. H. More. There was not a minute of the day which he left vacant. Bp. Fell.