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The business or employment of a broker. Burke.

A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king. Blackstone.

in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit, lying below a bed of black lava, in Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type.…

A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura. Bellows camera. See under Bellows. -- In camera (Law), in a judge's chamber, that is, privately; as, a judge hears testimony which is not fit for the open court in camera. -- Panoramic…

ne surface, as of paper or canvas, so that the outlines may conveniently traced. It is generally used with the microscope.

n extensible darkened box or chamber variously modifled; -- commonly called simply the camera.

See Comrade, [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to finance and public revenue.

The science of finance or public revenue.

To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.

A vaulting or arching over. [R.]

To grow into a canser; to become cancerous. Boyle.

The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.

Belonging a prison. [R.] Foxe.

A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A cauterizing substance.

One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.

Having the texture and color of new wax; like wax; waxy.

Beebread.

Of or pertaining to pottery; relating to the art of making earthenware; as, ceramic products; ceramic ornaments for ceilings.