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(tobacco, salt, etc.) used chiefly as a means of taxation. Such monopolies are largely employed in Austria, Italy, France, and Spain.

unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism. For this the avenging power employs his darts,.. Thus will persist, relentless in his ire. Dryden. -- Re*lent"less*ly, adv. -- Re*lent"less*ness, n.

aith. James justly regarded these renegades as the most serviceable tools that he could employ. Macaulay.

ed by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress. There is no man that may reporten all. Chaucer.

An instrument employed for replacing a displaced organ or part.

Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction. Lyell.

To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor. A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defense. Addison.

at followers, what retinue canst thou gain Milton. To have at one's retinue, to keep or employ as a retainer; to retain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.

d receives into the treasury for public use. Revenue cutter, an armed government vessel employed to enforce revenue laws, prevent smuggling, etc.

ocation of the Province of Canterbury, England. Both English and American revisers were employed on the work. It was first published in a complete form in 1885, and is a revised form of the Authorized Version. See Authorized Version, under Authorized.

Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk. "One riding apparitor." Ayliffe.

Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment. Locke.

, a white crystalline substance. It has a cooling, saline, slightly bitter taste and is employed as a mild purgative. It was discovered by Seignette, an apothecary of Rochelle, and is called also Seignete's salt.

A primitive form of speech; one of the earliest terms employed in language; a word from which other words are formed; a radix, or radical.

One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]

Malicious waste or destruction of an employer's property or injury to his interests by workmen during labor troubles.

he amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.

a bottom. -- To give the sack to or get the sack, to discharge, or be discharged, from employment; to jilt, or be jilted. [Slang]

Employed in sacrifice. [R.] Johnson.