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other; to take consel; to deliberate together; to confer. Let us consult upon to-morrow's business. Shak. All the laws of England have been made by the kings England, consulting with the nobility and commons. Hobbes.

ghest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve. To consummate this business happily. Shak.

To declare prohibited; to forbid. [Obs.] The law severly contrabands Our taking business of men's hands. Hudibras.

ance. "Conversation with the best company." Dryden. I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business. Bacon.

To manage with privacy; to carry out. [Obs.] I . . . will convey the business as I shall find means. Shak.

One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. Burrill.

The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another.

An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.

cheat; to trick. [Obs.] Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak.

Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.

One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer. the associates and copartners of our loss. Milton.

owed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.

A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.

house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business.

ty, held four times a year. [Eng.] -- County town, the town of a county, where the county business is transacted; a shire town.

One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. Swift.

An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.

on of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.

One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.

Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.