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The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.

Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules.

The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month. Shak.

er investigations go to show that they were, in general, identical with the tribes that occupied the country when discovered by Europeans. -- Mound maker (Zoöl.), any one of the megapodes. -- Shell mound, a mound of refuse shells, collected by aborigines who subsisted largely on shellfish. See Midden, and Kitchen mid…

pular name given in 1793 to a party of extreme Jacobins in the National Convention, who occupied the highest rows of seats.

o protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc.

A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip.

o certain costly vases of great beauty and delicacy used by the luxurious in Rome as wine cups; as, murrhine vases, cups, vessels. Murrhine glass, glassware made in imitation of murrhine vases and cups.

ame given to several very different kinds of grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong, or southern fox grape, which is said to be the parent stock of the Catawba. See Grapevine.

To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study. Daniel.

A powerful tribe of North American Indians that formerly occupied the region of Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. They constituted a large part of the Creek confederacy. [Written also Muscogees.]

A trade; a handicraft; hence, any business with which one is usually occupied. Fie upon him, he will discredit our mystery. Shak. And that which is the noblest mystery Brings to reproach and common infamy. Spenser.

One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.

the combination pleasing to the ear; as, a naked fourth or fifth. Naked bed, a bed the occupant of which is naked, no night linen being worn in ancient times. Shak. -- Naked eye, the eye alone, unaided by glasses, or by telescope, microscope, or the like. -- Naked-eyed medusa. (Zoöl.) See Hydromedusa. -- Naked floo…

A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds.

of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical motions of which are controlled, by the occupants.

Business; occupation. [Obs.] Bentley.

The state of being busily occupied; activity. [R.] D. Rogers.

One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidæ. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia.

in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant.