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Arab :: Arab (n.) One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc..

Slav :: Slav (n.) One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc..

Overrun :: Overrun (v. t.) To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass..

Scrape :: Scrape (v. i.) To occupy one's self with getting laboriously; as, he scraped and saved until he became rich..

Expand :: Expand (v. t.) To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence..

Preoccupation :: Preoccupation (n.) The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession..

Occupy :: Occupy (v. t.) To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

Possess :: Possess (v. t.) To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold.

Dream :: Dream (n.) The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision..

Occupying :: Occupying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Occup.

Pale :: Pale (n.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it..

Inhabit :: Inhabit (v. t.) To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses..

Virgo :: Virgo (n.) A constellation of the zodiac, now occupying chiefly the sign Libra, and containing the bright star Spica..

Retinophora :: Retinophora (n.) One of group of two to four united cells which occupy the axial part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and contain the terminal nerve fibrillae. See Illust. under Ommatidium..

Busy :: Busy (v. t.) To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged; to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books..

Exercise :: Exercise (v. t.) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain..

Occupation :: Occupation (n.) The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant..

Ambulacrum :: Ambulacrum (n.) One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays..

Amuse :: Amuse (v.) To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder..

Roommate :: Roommate (n.) One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.

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