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Formerly, an interior officer on board of British ships of war, whose business it was to see that the ship was kept clean.

sh; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.

One who cultivates forest trees, especially as a business.

An agent of a corporation, or of any body of men engaged in a business enterprise; an advocate or patron; an assignee.

association of persons officially authorized to undertake some duty or to negotiate some business; also, an association of persons who combine to carry out, on their own account, a financial or industrial project; as, a syndicate of bankers formed to take up and dispose of an entire issue of government bonds.…

Regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to have a system in one's business.

To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor. These tailoring artists for our lays Invent cramped rules. M. Green.

The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.

To resort to; to betake one's self to. "Men of learning, who take to business, discharge it generally with greater honesty than men of the world." Addison. -- To take up. (a) To stop. [Obs.] "Sinners at last take up and settle in a contempt of religion." Tillotson. (b) To reform. [Obs.] Locke. -- To take up with. (a)…

ed; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14- 30). He is chiefly to be considered in his three different talents, as a critic, a satirist, and a…

candles. -- Tallow chandlery, the trade of a tallow chandler; also, the place where his business is carried on. -- Tallow tree (Bot.), a tree (Stillingia sebifera) growing in China, the seeds of which are covered with a substance which resembles tallow and is applied to the same purposes.

One who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his business as tally trade.

One whose business is to tap or draw ale or other liquor.

Business; employment; undertaking; labor. His mental powers were equal to greater tasks. Atterbury. To take to task. See under Take.

To give instruction; to follow the business, or to perform the duties, of a preceptor. And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach. Chaucer. The priests thereof teach for hire. Micah iii. 11.

One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.

The act or business of instructing; also, that which is taught; instruction.

Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical. Blackstone.

In a technical manner; according to the signification of terms as used in any art, business, or profession.

n the mere man of theory, who can see nothing but general principles, and the mere man of business, who can see nothing but particular circumstances. Macaulay.