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A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.

One whose occupation is to bind books.

A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation. Camden.

A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.

A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.

Drunken; sotted; boozy. In his cups the bousy poet songs. Dryden.

A European marine fish (Pagrus vulgaris) allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species. [Also written brazier.]

One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.

One whose pccupation is to build with bricks. Bricklayer's itch. See under Itch.

ding with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.

One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.

The rim, border, or upper sdge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything. Saw I that insect on this goblet's brim I would remove it with an anxious pity. Coleridge.

love matters; to pimp. [Obs.] We do want a certain necessary woman to broke between them, Cupid said. Fanshawe. And brokes with all that can in such a suit Corrupt the tender honor of a maid. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside. Pope.

One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason. In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it. Eng. Cyc.

A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast. He frothed his bumpers to the brim. Tennyson.

rbon by nitric acid or a chromic acid mixture, the two plates being separated by a porous cup.

ful and ornamental species of oak (Quercus macrocarpa) with ovoid acorns inclosed in deep cups imbricated with pointed scales. It grows in the Middle and Western United States, and its wood is tough, close-grained, and durable. -- Bur reed (Bot.), a plant of the genus Sparganium, having long ribbonlike leaves.…

concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure. Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business Luke ii. 49.