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occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.

A scolding; a hand, tedious reproof. [Law] Grose.

One who works by the job.

A blockhead. [Colloq. & Obs.] H. Taylor.

The act or practice of jobbing.

Doing chance work or add jobs; as, a jobbing carpenter.

The nuthatch. [Prov. Eng.]

eculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.

The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.

Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14.

Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor.

Always. [Archaic or Poetic] I would not live alway. Job vii. 16.

dison. -- As well as, equally with, no less than. "I have understanding as well as you." Job xii. 3. -- As yet, until now; up to or at the present time; still; now.

An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15- 24.

o the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams. He bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job xxviii. 11. Whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years. Luke xiii. 16.

e lip that curls with bitterness. Percival. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Job vii. 11.

oxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight. By the blast of God they perish. Job iv. 9. Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast. Shak.

; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves. He maketh the deep to boil like a pot. Job xii. 31.

ork done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work.

y do it. Shak. If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom. Job xxxi. 33.