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One who undertakes to discharge a specific business commission; a mandatory. Wharton.

A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous. Erskine.

A person who makes a business of taking care of people's hands, especially their nails. [Men] who had taken good care of their hands by wearing gloves and availing themselves of the services of a manicure. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

The act or business of stealing or kidnaping human beings, especially with a view to e

atically and clearly; to sketch; to plan; as, to map, or map out, a journey; to map out business. I am near to the place where they should meet, if Pisanio have mapped it truly. Shak.

Any intimate or close union. Marriage brokage. (a) The business of bringing about marriages. (b) The payment made or demanded for the procurement of a marriage. -- Marriage favors, knots of white ribbons, or bunches of white flowers, worn at weddings. -- Marriage settlement (Law), a settlement of property in view, an…

To disguise; to cover; to hide. Masking the business from the common eye. Shak.

The state or quality of being massive; massiness.

That which one has to treat, or with which one has to do; concern; affair; business. To help the matter, the alchemists call in many vanities out of astrology. Bacon. Some young female seems to have carried matters so far, that she is ripe for asking advice. Spectator.

s self; to have to do; -- [Obs.] Barrow. Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business. Tyndale.

A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.

Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial. The expedition of the Argonauts was partly mercantile, partly military. Arbuthnot. Mercantile agency, an agency for procuring information of the standing and credit of merchants in…

The business of a mercer.

The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant. [Obs.] Gauden.

The business of a merchant; merchandise. Walpole.

One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.

A logarithm of the cosine or cotangent. [Obs.] Kepler. Hutton.

Calling; vocation; business; trade.

Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required.