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or a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure. Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business Luke ii. 49.

one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle. "Butcher of an innocent child." Shak. Butcher bird (Zoöl.), a species of shrike of the genus Lanius.

composite genus Liatris, having rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American umbelliferous plant with rigid, narrow leaves, and flowers in dense heads. -- Button tree (Bot.), a genus of trees (Conocarpus), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies. -- To hold by the button, to detain in con…

-- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.

pers, or secretly. I will buzz abroad such prophecies That Edward shall be fearful of his life. Shak.

wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.

A California fish (Hemilepidotus spinosus), allied to the sculpin.

s of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon.

tuta), about the size of a cat, related to the raccoons. It inhabits Mexico, Texas, and California.

h temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.

The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.

A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it.

rtiary auriferous gravel deposit, lying below a bed of black lava, in Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type.

e mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California.

An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.

oth as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey, [Writting also calif.]

command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak.

A beautuful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions.

A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat nesessary to life, that is, the animal heat.

ly report and calumniate all godly men's doings. Strype. Syn. asperse; slander; defame; vilify; traduce; belie; bespatter; blacken; libel. See Asperse.