In her relation to the king she was the best pattern of conjugal love and obsequiousness.—Bates, Sermon upon the Death of the Queen.
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He now ‘occupies’ who has in present possession; but the word involved once the further signification of using, employing, laying out that which was thus possessed; and by an ‘occupier’ was meant a trader or retail dealer.
He [Eumenes] made as though he had occasion to occupy money, and so borrowed a great sum of them.—North, Plutarch’s Lives, p. 505.
If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.—Judges xvi. 11. (A.V.)
Mercury, the master of merchants and occupiers [ἀγοραίων].—Holland, Plutarch’s Morals, p. 692.
Offal. This, bearing its derivation on its front, namely that it is that which, as refuse and of little or no worth, is suffered or caused to fall off, we restrict at the present to the refuse of the butcher’s stall; but it was once employed in a much wider acceptation, an acceptation which here and there still survives. Thus, as one who writes to me, ‘in all her Majesty’s dockyards there is a monthly sale by auction of “offal wood,” being literally that which falls off from the log under the saw, axe, or adze.’
Glean not in barren soil these offal ears,
Sith reap thou may’st whole harvests of delight.
Southwell, Lewd Love is Loss.