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Quinine :: Quinine (n.) An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc..

Tender :: Tender (n.) A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like..

Without :: Without (prep.) Not with; otherwise than with; in absence of, separation from, or destitution of; not with use or employment of; independently of; exclusively of; with omission; as, without labor; without damage..

Chopboat :: Chopboat (n.) A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels.

Work :: Work (n.) To carry on business; to be engaged or employed customarily; to perform the part of a laborer; to labor; to toil.

Proctor :: Proctor (n.) One who is employed to manage to affairs of another.

Discard :: Discard (v. t.) To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away..

Collier :: Collier (n.) A vessel employed in the coal trade.

Trade :: Trade (v.) The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician..

Waste :: Waste (a.) To spend unnecessarily or carelessly; to employ prodigally; to expend without valuable result; to apply to useless purposes; to lavish vainly; to squander; to cause to be lost; to destroy by scattering or injury.

Premise :: Premise (n.) To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously..

Exercise :: Exercise (v. t.) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy..

Mind :: Mind (n.) To occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to mind one's business..

Quiddle :: Quiddle (v. i.) To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle..

Page :: Page (n.) A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body..

Machinist :: Machinist (n.) A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.

Employable :: Employable (a.) Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use.

Merchantman :: Merchantman (n.) A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war..

Refer :: Refer (v. i.) To direct inquiry for information or a guarantee of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story..

Materia Medica :: Materia medica () That branch of medical science which treats of the nature and properties of all the substances that are employed for the cure of diseases.

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