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To interrupt, break in upon, or intercede with. [Obs.] I am interpelled by many businesses. Howell.

s; valor. Sir Roger had acquitted himself of two or three sentences with a look of much business and great intrepidity. Addison.

inery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc. His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness. Addison. The nature of man is intricate. Burke.

Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.

The want of unctuosity; freedom from greasiness or oiliness; as, the inunctuosity of porcelain clay. Kirwan.

les, with their estimated worth; specifically, the annual account of stock taken in any business. There take an inventory of all I have. Shak.

the symbol of the direct operation with -1 as an index. Thus sin-1 x means the arc whose sine is x. Inverse figures (Geom.), two figures, such that each point of either figure is inverse to a corresponding point in the order figure. -- Inverse points (Geom.), two points lying on a line drawn from the center of a fixe…

To lay out (money or capital) in business with the as, to invest money in bank stock.

To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears. "An itching palm." Shak.

zed by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of the fæces, constipation, uneasiness in the region of the stomach, loss of appetite, and general languor and lassitude. It is caused usually by obstruction of the biliary passages and consequent damming up, in the liver, of the bile, which is then absorbed int…

ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.

One who turns official or public business to private advantage; hence, one who performs low or mercenary work in office, politics, or intrigue.

The periodical collection and publication of current news; the business of managing, editing, or writing for, journals or newspapers; as, political journalism. Journalism is now truly an estate of the realm. Ed. Rev.

The conductor of a public journal, or one whose business it to write for a public journal; an editorial or other professional writer for a periodical. Addison.

An effort to vomit; queasiness. [R.]

See Cassinette.

Knots worthy of solution. Cowper. A man shall be perplexed with knots, and problems of business, and contrary affairs. South.

information of; as, to know one's duty. O, that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! Shak. There is a certainty in the proposition, and we know it. Dryden. Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. Longfellow.

One who lacquers, especially one who makes a business of lacquering.

The act or business of putting on lacquer; also, the coat of lacquer put on.