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In a robust manner.

The quality or state of being robust.

The bush or shrub which bears roses.

A genus of rosaceous plants, including the raspberry and blackberry.

An Australian plant (Atriplex nummularia) of the Goosefoot family.

The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties.

A sackbut. [Obs.]

Spicewood.

An American shrub (Andromeda Mariana) having clusters of nodding white flowers. It grows in low, sandy places, and is said to poison lambs and calves. Gray.

A genus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing. It includes many large and handsome species commonly called conch shells, or conchs. See Conch.

ious spirit supposed to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a succuba. Cf. Incubus.

A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like; an abstract.

A clot of blood formed of a passage of a vessel and remaining at the site of coagulation.

Not required to work; unemployed; not busy. [R.] These unbusied persons can continue in this playing idleness till it become a toil. Bp. Rainbow

Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust. "Able-bodied vagrant." Froude. -- A`ble-bod"ied*ness, n..

In concern with; engaged in; intent on. I must be about my Father's business. Luke ii. 49.

An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.

Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable. Ure.

The performer in music who takes the accompanying part. Busby.

A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.