Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 97
Business (n.) 職業；日常工作；生意，交易；商業；營業；行業 [U] [C]；商店；商行；公司；企業 [C] That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure.
Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? -- Luke ii. 49.
Compare: Busies
Busies (v. t.) To make or keep (someone, esp oneself) busy; occupy.
Business (n.) Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession. "The business of instruction." -- Prescott.
Business (n.) Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.
It seldom happens that men of a studious turn acquire any degree of reputation for their knowledge of business. -- Bp. Popteus.
Business (n.) That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission.
The daughter of the King of France, On serious business, craving quick despatch, Importunes personal conference. -- Shak.
What business has the tortoise among the clouds? -- L'Estrange.
Business (n.) Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words.
It was a gentle business, and becoming The action of good women. -- Shak.
Bestow Your needful counsel to our business. -- Shak.
Business (n.) (Drama) The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.
Business (n.) Care; anxiety; diligence. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
To do one's business, To ruin one. [Colloq.] -- Wycherley.
To make (a thing) one's business, To occupy one's self with a thing as a special charge or duty. [Colloq.]
To mean business, To be earnest. [Colloq.]
Syn: Affairs; concern; transaction; matter; engagement; employment; calling; occupation; trade; profession; vocation; office; duty.
Business (n.) A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern" [syn: business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation].
Business (n.) The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business" [syn: commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business].
Business (n.) The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: occupation, business, job, line of work, line].
Business (n.) A rightful concern or responsibility; "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business".
Business (n.) An immediate objective; "gossip was the main business of the evening".
Business (n.) The volume of commercial activity; "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today".
Business (n.) Business concerns collectively; "Government and business could not agree" [syn: business, business sector].
Business (n.) Customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele" [syn: clientele, patronage, business].
Business (n.) Incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious" [syn: business, stage business, byplay].
Businesslike (a.) 井然有序的；效率高的；講究實際的；認真的；有目的的 In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods; practical and efficient.
Businesslike (a.) Serious and purposeful.
Businesslike (a.) Exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics that would be useful in business.
Businesslike (a.) Not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal [syn: businesslike, earnest].
Businessman (n.) 商人；實業家 [C] A person employed in a business at a managerial level, especially an executive or proprietor.
Note: This term is seldom applied to technical specialists, unless they are part of upper management.
Businessman (n.) A person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) [syn: businessman, man of affairs].
Busk (n.) 婦女胸衣前端之鯨骨，鋼絲等；婦女胸衣 A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.
Her long slit sleeves, stiff busk, puff verdingall, Is all that makes her thus angelical. -- Marston.
Compare: Corset
Corset (n.) [C]（婦女用的）束腹，緊身褡 [P1]；（中世紀流行的）緊身外套 A woman's tightly fitting undergarment extending from below the chest to the hips, worn to shape the figure.
Corset (n.) [C] A tightly fitting undergarment worn by men or women to support a weak or injured back.
‘She wore a reinforced corset so she could support her son and take part in the walk.’
‘He has reportedly taken to jogging in a corset to keep in shape.’
Corset (n.) [C] [Historical] A tightly fitting laced or stiffened outer bodice.
Corset (n.) In the Middle Ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women.
Corset (n.) An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.
Corset (v. t.) 給……穿上束腹；嚴格控制 To inclose in corsets.
Corset (n.) A woman's close-fitting foundation garment [syn: {corset}, {girdle}, {stays}].
Corset (v.) Dress with a corset.
Busk (n.) Among the Creek Indians, a feast of first fruits celebrated when the corn is ripe enough to be eaten. The feast usually continues four days. On the first day the new fire is lighted, by friction of wood, and distributed to the various households, an offering of green corn, including an ear brought from each of the four quarters or directions, is consumed, and medicine is brewed from snakeroot. On the second and third days the men physic with the medicine, the women bathe, the two sexes are taboo to one another, and all fast. On the fourth day there are feasting, dancing, and games.
Busked (imp. & p. p.) of Busk.
Busk (v. t. & i.) (v. t.)【蘇格蘭】將……打扮穿戴好；（使）做好準備 (v. i.)【英】沿街賣藝；到鄉間演戲、賣藝；以低劣貨品欺騙鄉下人 To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. [Scot. & Old Eng.]
Busk you, busk you, my bonny, bonny bride. -- Hamilton.
Busk (v. t. & i.) To go; to direct one's course. [Obs.]
Ye might have busked you to Huntly banks. -- Skelton.
Busk (v.) Play music in a public place and solicit money for it; "three young men were busking in the plaza".
Busked (a.) Wearing a busk.
Busket (n.) A small bush; also, a sprig or bouquet.
Busket (n.) A part of a garden devoted to shrubs.
Buskin (n.) A strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg.
Buskin (n.) A similar covering for the foot and leg, made with very thick soles, to give an appearance of elevation to the stature; -- worn by tragic actors in ancient Greece and Rome. Used as a symbol of tragedy, or the tragic drama, as distinguished from comedy.
Buskined (a.) Wearing buskins.
Buskined (a.) Trodden by buskins; pertaining to tragedy.
Busky (a.) See Bosky, and 1st Bush, n.
Buss (n.) A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack.
Bussed (imp. & p. p.) of Buss.
Bussing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buss.
Buss (v. t.) To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely.
Buss (n.) A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery.
Bust (n.) A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.
Bust (n.) The portion of the human figure included between the head and waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest or thorax; the upper part of the trunk of the body.
Bustard (n.) A bird of the genus Otis.
Buster (n.) 破壞者；有巨大破壞力的東西；【俚】歡鬧；【澳】強勁的南風；【口】龐然大物；【口】（常用於對男孩、男子表示友好或不太客氣的稱呼）伙計，老兄，小子 Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree. [Slang, U.S.] -- Bartlett.
Buster (n.) An informal form of address for a man; "Say, fellow, what are you doing?"; "Hey buster, what's up?" [syn: fellow, dude, buster].
Buster (n.) A robust child.
Buster (n.) A person who breaks horses [syn: buster, bronco buster, broncobuster].
Buster (n.) A person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something; "dam buster"; "sanction buster"; "crime buster."
Buster (n.) A person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically [syn: baby buster, buster].
Bustled (imp. & p. p.) of Bustle.
Bustling (n.) of Bustle.
Bustle (v. i.) 鬧哄哄地忙亂；奔忙 [（+about）]；充滿 [（+with）] To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.
And leave the world for me to bustle in. -- Shak.
Bustle (n.) 忙亂，喧囂 [U] [S1] Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.
A strange bustle and disturbance in the world. -- South.
Bustle (n.) A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.
Bustle (n.) A rapid active commotion [syn: bustle, hustle, flurry, ado, fuss, stir].
Bustle (n.) A framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt.
Bustle (v.) (v. t.) 催促；使忙碌Move or cause to move energetically or busily; "The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance" [syn: bustle, bustle about, hustle].
Bustler (n.) An active, stirring person.
Bustling (a.) 活躍的；奔忙的；忙亂的；熙攘的；bustle的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd. "A bustling wharf." -- Hawthorne.
Bustoes (n. pl. ) of Busto.
Busto (n.) A bust; a statue.
Busty (a.) (Of a woman's body) 【口】（婦女）大胸脯的，胸部豐滿的 Having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight dress" [syn: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well- endowed].
Busy (a.) Engaged in some business; hard at work (either habitually or only for the time being); occupied with serious affairs; not idle nor at leisure; as, a busy merchant.
Busy (a.) Constantly at work; diligent; active.
Busy (a.) Crowded with business or activities; -- said of places and times; as, a busy street.
Busy (a.) Officious; meddling; foolish active.
Busy (a.) Careful; anxious.
Busied (imp. & p. p.) of Busy.
Busying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of 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.
Busybodies (n. pl. ) of Busybody.
Busybody (n.) One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.
But (adv. & conj.) Except with; unless with; without.
But (adv. & conj.) Except; besides; save.
But (adv. & conj.) Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.
But (adv. & conj.) Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that.
But (adv. & conj.) Only; solely; merely.
But (adv. & conj.) On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind.
But (prep., adv. & conj.) The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room.
But (n.) A limit; a boundary.
But (n.) The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. See 1st Butt.
Butted (imp. & p. p.) of But.
Butting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of But.
But (v. i.) See Butt, v., and Abut, v.
Butane (n.) An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series.
Butcher (n.) 屠夫，肉商，小販 One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.
Butcher (n.) A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.
Butchered (imp. & p. p.) of Butcher.
Butchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butcher.
Butcher (v. t.) 屠宰，屠殺 To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.
Butcher (v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.
Butcher (v. t.) To bungle badly; to botch; -- used also when an object is damaged (literally or figuratively) in an activity; as, the new choir butchered the hymn.
Butcher (n.) A retailer of meat [syn: {butcher}, {meatman}].
Butcher (n.) A brutal indiscriminate murderer.
Butcher (n.) A person who slaughters or dresses meat for market [syn: {butcher}, {slaughterer}].
Butcher (n.) Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence [syn: {bungler}, {blunderer}, {fumbler}, {bumbler}, {stumbler}, {sad sack}, {botcher}, {butcher}, {fuckup}].
Butcher (v.) Kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter" [syn: {butcher}, {slaughter}].
Butchering (n.) The business of a butcher.
Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.
Butcherly (a.) Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.
Butcher's broom () A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.
Butchery (n.) The business of a butcher.
Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.
Butchery (n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
Butler (n.) An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house.
Butlerage (n.) A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king.
Butlership (n.) The office of a butler.
Butment (n.) A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.
Butment (n.) The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported.
Butt (n.) Alt. of But.
But (n.) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
Here is my journey's end, here my butt And very sea mark of my utmost sail. -- Shak.
Note: As applied to land, the word is nearly synonymous with mete, and signifies properly the end line or boundary; the abuttal.
But (n.) The larger or thicker end of anything; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp end; as, the butt of a rifle. Formerly also spelled but. See 2 nd but, n. sense 2.
But (n.) A mark to be shot at; a target. -- Sir W. Scott.
The groom his fellow groom at butts defies,
And bends his bow, and levels with his eyes. -- Dryden.
But (n.) A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company.
I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I thought very smart. -- Addison.
But (n.) A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram.
But (v. t.) The thicker end of anything. See But.
But (v. t.) A mark to be shot at; a target.
But (v. t.) A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company.
But (v. t.) A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram.
But (n.) A thrust in fencing.
But (n.) A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
But (n.) (Mech.) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint.
But (n.) (Mech.) The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
But (n.) (Mech.) The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
But (n.) (ShipuildingThe joint where two planks in a strake meet.
But (v. t.) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
But (v. t.) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
But (v. t.) The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
Butted (imp. & p. p.) of Butt.
Butting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butt.
Butt (v. i.) To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. [Written also but.]
And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground. -- Drayton.
Butt (v. i.) To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]
A snow-white steer before thine altar led, Butts with his threatening brows. -- Dryden.
Butt (v. t.) To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.
Two harmless lambs are butting one the other. -- Sir H. Wotton.