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To hasten; to expedite. [Obs.] "To expediate their business." Sir E. Sandys.

A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon. W. D. Howells.

Foreign to a profession; not within the ordinary limits of professional duty or business.

ries of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem. The moral is the first business of the poet; this being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as may be most suitable to the moral. Dryden.

Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy. It is a great error to take facility for good nature. L'Estrange.

One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the poss…

The business of a factor.

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company's factory at Madras." Burke.

A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. B. Jonson.

The refuse or meaner part of anything. The fag-end of business. Collier.

meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.

A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.

of climbing high. Shak. To a busy man, temptation is fainto climb up together with his business. Jer. Taylor.

make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self with a business, a book, or a science.

Ado; bustle; business. [Obs.] The warder chid and made fare. Chaucer.

To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes. To farm their subjects and their duties toward these. Burke.

The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead. [Eng.]

The business of cultivating land.

profundity; reach; penetration. [R.] Another of his fathom they have none To lead their business. Shak.

sufficient to give rise to a probable suspicion of favor or bias, such as acquaintance, business relation, etc. See Principal challenge, under Challenge. -- In favor of, upon the side of; favorable to; for the advantage of. -- In favor with, favored, countenanced, or encouraged by. -- To curry favor Etym: [see the e…