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One skilled in affairs. My attorney and solicitor too; a fine pragmatic. B. Jonson.

Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner. The next day . . . I began to be very pragmatical. Evelyn. We can not always be contemplative, diligent, or pragmatical, abroad; but have need of some delightful intermissions. Milton. Low, pragm…

A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment.

ental. Hooker. His going away . . . was most prejudicial and most ruinous to the king's affairs. Clarendon. -- Prej`u*di"cial*ly, adv. -- Prej`u*di"cial*ness, n.

pany. Odmar, of all this presence does contain, Give her your wreath whom you esteem most fair. Dryden.

his time; not past or future; as, the present session of Congress; the present state of affairs; the present instance. I'll bring thee to the present business Shak.

Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press of engagements.

quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing. The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail. Cowper.

One who is employed to manage to affairs of another. Specifically:

The management of another's affairs.

One who manages another's affairs, either generally or in a special matter; an agent; a proctor. Chaucer. Shak.

To solicit; to entreat. [Obs.] The famous Briton prince and faery knight, . . . Of the fair Alma greatly were procured To make there longer sojourn and abode. Spenser.

A light kind of crossbow; -- in the sense, often spelled prodd. Fairholt.

. The French king of Sweden are circumspect, industrious, and prospective, too, in this affair. Sir J. Child.

hereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs.

A celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc. Shak. He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall. Drayton.

ull down, to demolish; to destroy; to degrade; as, to pull down a house. " In political affairs, as well as mechanical, it is easier to pull down than build up." Howell. " To raise the wretched, and pull down the proud." Roscommon. To pull a finch. See under Finch. To pull off, take or draw off.

goal line by a player of the side which has made a touchdown to one of his own side for a fair catch, from which an attempt to kick a goal may be made.

instrument of labor; as, to put the hand to the plow; hence, to engage in (any task or affair); as, to put one's hand to the work.

Same as 1st Quarrel. [Obs.] Fairfax.