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A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.

bstance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen.

roperty by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge.

An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter. Buzzing emissaries fill the ears Of listening crowds with jealousies and fears. Dryden.

the mind; to employ one's energies. This is a day in which the thoughts . . . ought to be employed on serious subjects. Addison.

Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle.

The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.

encountered at Waterloo. I will encounter with Andronicus. Shak. Perception and judgment, employed in the investigation of all truth, have in the first place to encounter with particulars. Tatham.

Occupied; employed; busy.

ount; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed. F. A. Walker.

rm of yellow tears, produced chiefly by the African Euphorbia resinifrea. It was formerly employed medicinally, but was found so violent in its effects that its use is nearly abandoned.

Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction.

team (Steam Engine), steam which is allowed to escape from the cylinder after having been employed to produce motion of the piston. -- Exhaust valve (Steam Engine), a valve that lets exhaust steam escape out of a cylinder.

An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits.

Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles.

Employed in, or designed for, exploration. "Exploring parties." Bancroft.

ective effect, and with intention to produce that effect; but in its true application, as employed in American law, it relates only to crimes, and signifies a law which retroacts, by way of criminal punishment, upon that which was not a crime before its passage, or which raises the grade of an offense, or renders an ac…

A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon. W. D. Howells.

ubstances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid.