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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.

Good against convulsions. J. Floyer.

The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.

t in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a. If you blacklist us, we will boycott you. John Swinton.

To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. "To bone a turkey." Soyer.

To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.

ods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.

nd may be good or bad according to circumstances; as, a combiniation of workmen or of employers to effect or to prevent a chang in prices. A cabal is a secret association of a few individuals who seek by cunning practices to obtain office and power. A faction is a larger body than a cabal, employed for selfish purposes…

ra house, etc., where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer. Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night. Macualay.

A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer. [Obs.]

Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe. Death! great proprietor of all. Young. And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that at on him was Death. Rev. vi. 8.

A destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer. The destruction that wasteth at noonday. Ps. xci. 6.

A destroyer. [R.] Fire, the destructive and the artificial death of things. Boyle.

l from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer.

rty by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge.

An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter. Buzzing emissaries fill the ears Of listening crowds with jealousies and fears. Dryden.

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

One who extirpates or roots out; a destroyer.

Service performed only under inspection, or the eye of an employer. Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers. Col. iii. 22.

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