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at pertaining to naval or military affairs. -- Civil service reform, the substitution of business principles and methods for the spoils system in the conduct of the civil service, esp. in the matter of appointments to office. -- Civil state, the whole body of the laity or citizens not included under the military, mar…

The substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of the civil service. esp. the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office.

To abuse with the tongue; to revile; to scold.

the balances adjusted in the clearing house. Clearing house, the establishment where the business of clearing is carried on. See above, 3.

State, quality, or business of a clerk.

Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.

A species of raspberry (Rubus Chamæmerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.

To make a confused noise; to bustle. It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there. Tennyson.

air dressing, a loose, low coil at the back of the head, like the knot on the head of the bust of Clytie by G. F. Watts.

A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.

A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheve.

A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

A noise, tumult, bustle, or confusion. [Obs.] Shak.

Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting. What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in! B. Jonson. The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene. Addison.

One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb.

One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.

America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer. Dr. T. Dwight.

Encompassed with a coma, or bushy appearance, like hair; hairy.

t. (f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of. (g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment. (h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in well. (i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. Gen. xxxviii. 16. (j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come in next May. [U.…

Macaulay. Commercial college, a school for giving instruction in commercial knowledge and business. -- Commercial law. See under Law. -- Commercial note paper, a small size of writing paper, usually about 5 by 7½ or 8 inches. -- Commercial paper, negotiable paper given in due course of business. It includes bills of…