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To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.

To declare prohibited; to forbid. [Obs.] The law severly contrabands Our taking business of men's hands. Hudibras.

ance. "Conversation with the best company." Dryden. I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business. Bacon.

To manage with privacy; to carry out. [Obs.] I . . . will convey the business as I shall find means. Shak.

, or means by which, anything is carried from one place to another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water. There pipes and these conveyances of our blood. Shak.

One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. Burrill.

The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another.

Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. [Obs.] "Convicious words." Queen Elizabeth (1559).

An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.

cheat; to trick. [Obs.] Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak.

A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter. [Written also comb.]

Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.

One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer. the associates and copartners of our loss. Milton.

d and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like. Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain. Spenser.

owed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.

One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids.

A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general. The moment had arrived when it was thought that the mask and the cothurn might be assumed with effect. Motley.

A man who busies himself with affairs which properly belong to women. Addison.

A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.

house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business.