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One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.

One employed by another.

One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.

Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work.

s in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more."

To beautify; to dandify. I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself. Smollett.

Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others.

ithic), the Bronze age, and the Iron age. During the Age of Stone man is supposed to have employed stone for weapons and implements. See Augustan, Brazen, Golden, Heroic, Middle.

fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. Ure.

A unit, employed in calculating fall of pressure in distributing mains, equivalent to a current of one ampère flowing through one foot of conductor.

A crystalline compound used as an antipyretic and analgesic, employed chiefly in rheumatism and neuralgia. It is a complex derivative of quinoline.

the angle meet; the vertex. -- Angular velocity, the ratio of anuglar motion to the time employed in describing.

A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses. [Obs.] Chaucer.

, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care. Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law. Shak.

A letter, or a combination of letters, employed in spelling a word, but in the pronunciation having no sound. -- Aph*thon"gal, a.

his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.

Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc. Oxf. Gloss.

production of the beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture; one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature.

A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen. Thackeray.