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One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.

who makes or deals in millinery; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments.

A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.

The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.

A trade, art, or occupation. [Obs.] In youth he learned had a good mester. Chaucer.

The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.

One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.

Business; occupation. [Obs.] Bentley.

urtesy by a formal pledge. That they may not incline or be obligated to any vile or lowly occupations. Landor.

The act of taking or holding possession; possession; occupation. Title by occupancy (Law), a right of property acquired by taking the first possession of a thing, or possession of a thing which belonged to nobody, and appropriating it. Blackstone. Kent.

One alone; single; as, the only man present; his only occupation.

Beyond possession, control, or occupation; hence, in, or into, a state of want, loss, or deprivation; -- used of office, business, property, knowledge, etc.; as, the Democrats went out and the Whigs came in; he put his money out at interest. "Land that is out at rack rent." Locke. "He was out fifty pounds." Bp. Fell. I…

One whose occupation is to paint; esp.:

The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership.

de of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc. Pastry cook, one whose occupation is to make pastry; as, the pastry cook of a hotel.

The system, occupation, character, or manner of pedagogues. Milton. Avocation of pedantry and pedagogism. De Foe.

A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster.

Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc.

bodies. "Poor, pestiferous creatures begging alms." Evelyn. "Unwholesome and pestiferous occupations." Burke.