資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   6. To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by
      cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat
      is done on one side only.

   7. To put or bring into a form, state, or condition,
      especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death;
      to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to
      remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take
      off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form
      of; to translate or transform into, as a text.

            Done to death by slanderous tongues.  -- Shak.

            The ground of the difficulty is done away. -- Paley.

            Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done
            away.                                 --Thackeray.

            To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we
            must do on the armor of God.          -- Latimer.

            Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen
            tunic.                                -- W. Morris
                                                  (Jason).

            Though the former legal pollution be now done off,
            yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as
            much to be shunned.                   --Milton.

            It [``Pilgrim's Progress''] has been done into
            verse: it has been done into modern English. --
                                                  Macaulay.

   8. To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.]

            He was not be done, at his time of life, by
            frivolous offers of a compromise that might have
            secured him seventy-five per cent.    -- De Quincey.

   9. To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of
      interest. [Colloq.]

   10. (Stock Exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a
       bill or note.

   Note:
       (a) Do and did are much employed as auxiliaries, the verb
           to which they are joined being an infinitive. As an
           auxiliary the verb do has no participle. ``I do set
           my bow in the cloud.'' --Gen. ix. 13. [Now archaic or
           rare except for emphatic assertion.]

                 Rarely . . . did the wrongs of individuals to
                 the knowledge of the public.     -- Macaulay.
       (b) They are often used in emphatic construction. ``You
           don't say so, Mr. Jobson. -- but I do say so.'' --Sir
           W. Scott. ``I did love him, but scorn him now.''
           --Latham.
       (c) In negative and interrogative constructions, do and
           did are in common use. I do not wish to see them;
           what do you think? Did C[ae]sar cross the Tiber? He
           did not. ``Do you love me?'' --Shak.
       (d) Do, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first
           used before imperatives. It expresses entreaty or
           earnest request; as, do help me. In the imperative
           mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with
           the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done
           often stand as a general substitute or representative
           verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal
           verb. ``To live and die is all we have to do.''
           --Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries,
           the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without
           to) of the verb represented. ``When beauty lived and
           died as flowers do now.'' --Shak. ``I . . . chose my
           wife as she did her wedding gown.'' --Goldsmith.

                 My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being.
                 As the light does the shadow.    -- Longfellow.
           In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the
           most part, archaic or poetical; as, ``This just
           reproach their virtue does excite.'' --Dryden.

   {To do one's best}, {To do one's diligence} (and the like),
      to exert one's self; to put forth one's best or most or
      most diligent efforts. ``We will . . . do our best to gain
      their assent.'' --Jowett (Thucyd.).

   {To do one's business}, to ruin one. [Colloq.] --Wycherley.

   {To do one shame}, to cause one shame. [Obs.]

   {To do over}.
       (a) To make over; to perform a second time.
       (b) To cover; to spread; to smear. ``Boats . . . sewed
           together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff
           like rosin.'' --De Foe.

   {To do to death}, to put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.]

   {To do up}.
       (a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
       (b) To pack together and envelop; to pack up.
       (c) To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.]
       (d) To starch and iron. ``A rich gown of velvet, and a
           ruff done up with the famous yellow starch.''
           --Hawthorne.

   {To do way}, to put away; to lay aside. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

   {To do with}, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; --
      usually preceded by what. ``Men are many times brought to
      that extremity, that were it not for God they would not
      know what to do with themselves.'' --Tillotson.

   {To have to do with}, to have concern, business or
      intercourse with; to deal with. When preceded by what, the
      notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern
      the person denoted by the subject of have. ``Philology has
      to do with language in its fullest sense.'' --Earle.
      ``What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? --2 Sam.
      xvi. 10.

Business \Busi"ness\, n.; pl. {Businesses}. [From {Busy}.]
   1. 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.

   2. Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for
      livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a
      profession. ``The business of instruction.'' --Prescott.

   3. 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.

   4. 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.

   5. 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.

   6. (Drama) The position, distribution, and order of persons
      and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by
      the stage manager in rehearsal.

   7. 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.