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A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire. No hireling she, no prostitute to praise. Pope.

One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another. Jer. Taylor.

One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. Bouvier.

Course of business or occupation; continued employment with a view to same end; as, mercantile pursuits; a literary pursuit.

t forth = to thrust out). His chief designs are . . . to put thee by from thy spiritual employment. Jer. Taylor.

any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success; an enabling quality or circumstance; requisite capacity or possession. There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive. Bu…

edge, skill, or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; to make capable, as of an employment or privilege; to supply with legal power or capacity. He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession. Macaulay.

One employed to collect profits. [R.] "The pope's questuaries." Jer. Taylor.

To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.

sts in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes.

on (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc. [Written also chinine.]

A contrivance employed by the ancient Peruvians, Mexicans, etc., as a substitute for writing and figures, consisting of a main cord, from which hung at certain distances smaller cords of various colors, each having a special meaning, as silver, gold, corn, soldiers. etc. Single, double, and triple knots were tied in th…

Of or pertaining to radiotelegraphy; employing, or used or employed in, radiotelegraphy.

nguage; satirical merriment. Let raillery be without malice or heat. B. Jonson. Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into raillery. Addison.

r war; to excite. He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind. Ps. cvii. 25. Æneas . . . employs his pains, In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains. Dryden.

A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.

To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike. [Trades-union Cant] J. McCarthy.

A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.

ct to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.

g or refusing; option; as, to give one the refusal of a farm; to have the refusal of an employment.