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Remiss :: Remiss (a.) Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow..

Action :: Action (n.) An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action..

Unattached :: Unattached (a.) Not attached; not adhering; having no engagement; free.

Sea Fight :: Sea fight () An engagement between ships at sea; a naval battle.

Faithful :: Faithful (a.) Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements..

Hypothecate :: Hypothecate (v. t.) To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry..

Appointment :: Appointment (n.) Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six..

Close-fights :: Close-fights (n. pl.) Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters..

Pumice :: Pumice (n.) A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone..

Open :: Open (a.) Free; disengaged; unappropriated; as, to keep a day open for any purpose; to be open for an engagement..

Gear :: Gear (n.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear..

Combat :: Combat (n.) An engagement of no great magnitude; or one in which the parties engaged are not armies.

Agreement :: Agreement (n.) A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract..

Escrow :: Escrow (n.) A deed, bond, or other written engagement, delivered to a third person, to be held by him till some act is done or some condition is performed, and then to be by him delivered to the grantee..

Press :: Press (n.) Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press of engagements..

Engager :: Engager (n.) One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety.

Disengagement :: Disengagement (n.) Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure.

Trucebreaker :: Trucebreaker (n.) One who violates a truce, covenant, or engagement..

Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent..

Bilk :: Bilk (v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor..

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