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Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial. The expedition of the Argonauts was partly mercantile, partly military. Arbuthnot. Mercantile agency, an agency for procuring information of the standing and credit of merchants in…

The business of a mercer.

The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant. [Obs.] Gauden.

The business of a merchant; merchandise. Walpole.

One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.

Calling; vocation; business; trade.

Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required.

e whole military force of a nation, including both those engaged in military service as a business, and those competent and available for such service; specifically, the body of citizens enrolled for military instruction and discipline, but not subject to be called into actual service except in emergencies. The king's…

The business of work of a milliner.

The business of setting up or of operating mill machinery.

To occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to mind one's business. Bidding him be a good child, and mind his book. Addison.

One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.

The act or business of making mines or of working them.

ent, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business.

f being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission. Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions' mongst the gods themselves. Shak.

Affording profitable returns; lucrative; as, a money-making business.

of changing place or posture; esp., the act of changing one's dwelling place or place of business. Moving day, a day when one moves; esp., a day when a large number of tenants change their dwelling place.

A trade; a handicraft; hence, any business with which one is usually occupied. Fie upon him, he will discredit our mystery. Shak. And that which is the noblest mystery Brings to reproach and common infamy. Spenser.

That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business. [Obs.] Chaucer.