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To beautify; to dandify. I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself. Smollett.

Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others.

ithic), the Bronze age, and the Iron age. During the Age of Stone man is supposed to have employed stone for weapons and implements. See Augustan, Brazen, Golden, Heroic, Middle.

To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat.

fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. Ure.

A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.

in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. Quian.

A unit, employed in calculating fall of pressure in distributing mains, equivalent to a current of one ampère flowing through one foot of conductor.

A crystalline compound used as an antipyretic and analgesic, employed chiefly in rheumatism and neuralgia. It is a complex derivative of quinoline.

To employ, or reason by, analogy.

the angle meet; the vertex. -- Angular velocity, the ratio of anuglar motion to the time employed in describing.

A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses. [Obs.] Chaucer.

, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care. Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law. Shak.

A letter, or a combination of letters, employed in spelling a word, but in the pronunciation having no sound. -- Aph*thon"gal, a.

The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use. If a right course . . . be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments. Locke.

To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.

portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.

his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.

with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.

Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc. Oxf. Gloss.