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The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.

Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions. It seldom happens that men of a studious turn acquire any degree of reputation for their knowledge of business. Bp. Popteus.

In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.

One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey.

ular name given to a few species of the genus Careopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.

inction from those on which credit is given; stocks sold, to be delivered on the day of transaction.

Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer. Hansard.

ty, in the conduct of important matters, as in the performance of religious duties, the transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration of notable events; as, the ceremony of crowning a sovereign; the ceremonies observed in consecrating a church; marriage and baptismal ceremonies. According to all the rites of it,…

A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.

A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions. [Colloq. for Exchange.]

unt of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book.

A Hindoo caravansary.

A person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology. That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided. Locke. THe most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December. John Knox.

reats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates. If history without chronology is dark and confused, chronology without history is dry and insipid. A. Holmes.

the Alps with reference to Rome, that is, on the south side of the Alps; -- opposed to transalpine.

A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.

The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere. Commission of array. (Eng. Hist.) See under Array. -- Commission of bankrupty, a commission apointing and empowering certain persons to examine into the facts relative…

An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.

n, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.

A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.