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as can be lent; available for lending; as, loanable funds; -- used mostly in financial business and writings.

f the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency. [U.S.]

To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs. [U.S.]

The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.

A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards.

, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle. Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her favorite dove. Prior.

Causing or incurring loss; as, a losing game or business. Who strive sit out losing hands are lost. Herbert.

le think so. [Colloq.] He wrote to her . . . he might be detained in London by a lot of business. W. Black.

Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office. The trade of merchandise being the most lucrative, may bear usury at a good rate. Bacon.

dicrous predicament as Van Troil's chapter on the snakes of Iceland, which delivers its business in one summary sentence, announcing, that snakes in Iceland -- there are none. De Quincey.

The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber. [U.S.]

One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment. [U.S.]

to devour; hence, to swallow up. [Obs.] Too far off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear. Bacon.

llusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseïne, etc.

Bad administration; bad management of any business, especially of public affairs. [Written also maleadministration.]

An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.

ng Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly. Hence:

To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer. Leave them to manage for thee. Dryden .

Business dealing; negotiation; arrangement. He had great managements with ecclesiastics. Addison .

A person who conducts business or household affairs with economy and frugality; a good economist. A prince of great aspiring thoughts; in the main, a manager of his treasure. Sir W. Temple.