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Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may browse. Browsings for the deer. Howell.

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.

In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.

See Byssus, n., 1.

Made of silk; having a silky or flaxlike appearance. Coles.

See under Calcite.

A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt, and so named from its resemblance to cambric.

In caressing manner.

That carouses; relating to a carouse.

In the manner of a carouser.

The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.

Dried dung of cattle used as fuel. [Prov. Eng.] Waterland.

A game at cards. See Cassino.

A cloth with a cotton wart, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk.

See under Oval.

A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points. Great cassino, the ten of diamonds. -- Little cassino, the two of spades.

A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to oatch bulky matters which would not pass readly throught the sewer. Knight.

A remote relation. See Quater-cousin. Shak.

A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; -- called also meta-arabinic acid.

Pertaining to, or containing, cerasin.