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Want of loyalty; lack of fidelity; violation of allegiance.

as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies. This is a day in which the thoughts . . . ought to be employed on serious subjects. Addison.…

Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle.

One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.

One employed by another.

One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.

The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

A variant of Flute. [Obs.]

A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.

See Caloyer.

in London, appropriated to the use of underwriters and insurance brokers; -- called also Lloyd's Rooms.

To employ amiss; as, to misemploy time, advantages, talents, etc. Their frugal father's gains they misemploy. Dryden.

Wrong or mistaken employment. Johnson.

To fill beyond satiety. Shak.

form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy. Wilhelm.

ming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deployment.

To employ beforehand. "Preëmployed by him." Shak.

A kind of dried sausage. McElrath.

, such as that required in wood carving; trade work; hence, a system (usually called the sloyd system) of manual training in the practical use of the tools and materials used in the trades, and of instruction in the making and use of the plans and specifications connected with trade work. The sloyd system derives its n…

To surfeit. [Obs.]