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Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life. Shak. A private person may arrest a felon. Blackstone.

The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.

Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; -- opposed to amateur.

Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey. "A prowling wolf." Milton. -- Prowl"ing*ly, adv.

To prosecute; to be engaged in; to continue. " Insatiate to pursue vain war." Milton.

Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar"rel*ing*ly, adv.

A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.

A man engaged in rafting.

Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force. "Thy rebellious crew." "Proud rebellious arms." Milton. -- Re*bel"lious*ly, adv. -- Re*bel"lious*ness, n.

Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.

One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist. Smollett.

One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution. Burke.

Opprobriously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like. The ringleaders were apprehended, tried, fined, and imprisoned. Macaulay.

Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or meditation.

One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant. Shak. Locke.

A mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.

A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- called also seminary.

To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.

The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.

To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods. He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping. Byron.