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Agent:	One intrusted with the business of another; an attorney; a minister; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
Blacksmith:	A smith who works in iron, and makes iron utensils; an ironsmith.
Book-keeper:	Wanting the sense of hearing either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds. One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.
Brick:	A hard body composed chiefly of clay and sand, tempered together with water, molded into regular forms, usually rectangular, dried in the sun, and burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.
Bricklayer:	One whose occupation is to build with bricks: a mason.
Brickmaker:	One who makes bricks, or whose occupation is to make bricks.
Brickyard:	A place where bricks are made.
Box:	A case or receptacle of any size, or made of any material.
Butcher:	One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation is to kill animals for food
Carriage:	That which carries or conveys on wheels; a vehicle, especially for pleasure or for passengers, sometimes for burdens; as, a close carriage; a gun carriage.
Clerk:	An assistant in a shop or store, who sells goods, keeps accounts, &c.
Clothier:	1. One who makes cloths. 2. One who sells cloth or clothing. 3. One who dresses or fulls cloth. Fulls: To thicken cloth; to smooth, bleach.
Cook:	One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses meat or vegetables for eating.
Day Laborer:	One who works by the day.
Dealer:	One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others' especially, a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant, as a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in hardware; a dealer in stocks.
Dentist:	One who makes it his business to clean, extract, and repair natural teeth, and to insert artificial ones.
Domestic:	One who lives in the family of another, as hired assistant; a house servant.
Drayman:	A man who attends a dray.
Dray:	1. A low cart or carriage on wheels, drawn by a horse, and used for heavy burdens. 2. A rude sort of cart without wheels; a drag.
Dressmaker:	A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantua-maker.
Druggist:	One who deals in drugs; especially one whose occupation is merely to buy and sell drugs, without compounding or preparation.
Editor:	One who edits; especially a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects book, magazine, or newspaper, &c, for publication.
Engineer:	1. A person skilled in the principles and practice of engineering. Either civil or military. 2. One who manages an engine; an engine driver.
Factory hand:	Factory: A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory. Hand: See Hand below.
Factory manager:	See Factory above. See Manager below.
Farm hand:	Farm: 1. A tract of land inclosed or set apart for cultivation by a tenant; a piece of ground farmed out or rented for agriculture. 2. An extended piece of ground, devoted by its owner to agriculture; a landed estate. 3. The state of land leased on rent reserved; a lease. 4. A tract of country farmed out for the collection of the revenues. Hand: See below.
Farm labor/Farm laborer:	See Laborer below.
Farmer:	One who farms; as, (a.) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant. (b.) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent; as, a farmer of revenues. (c.) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; an agriculturist; a husband.
Farming:	The business of cultivating land.
Farming lab/ Farming, laborer:	See Farm. See Laborer.
Fish dealer:	See Dealer.
Gardener/Gardner:	One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.
Grocer:	A trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, liquors, fruits, &c.
Hand:	An agent, servant, or laborer; a laborer trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful.
Hand at warehouse:	See Hand above. See Warehouse below.
Hardware Merchant:	Hardware: Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen furniture, and the like. Merchant: See below.
Harness Maker:	Harness: The equipments of a draught horse, for a wagon, coach, gig, chaise, &c; tackle; tackling. Maker: See below.
Hired laborer/ Hired out:	Hire: To engage in service for a stipulated reward; to contract with for wages; as, to hire a servant for a year; to hire laborers by the day or month.
Hostler:	1. The person who has the care of horses at an inn; -- so called because the innkeeper formerly attended to this duty in person. 2. Any one who takes care of horses; a stableboy; a groom.
Hotel:	A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; a hostel or hostelry; an inn or public house; especially, one of some style or pretensions.
Hotel Chambermaid:	A woman who has the care of chambers, making the beds, and cleaning the rooms, or who dresses a lady, and waits upon her in her apartment.
Hotel Cook:	One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses meat or vegetables for eating.
Hotell Keeper ( Hotel Keeper):	One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of any thing; as, the keeper of a park, a pound, of sheep, of a gate, &c.
Hotel Porter:	A man that has the charge of a door or gate; a door-keeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages.
Hotel Proprietor:	One who has the legal right or exclusive title to any thing, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of a farm, or of a mill.
Hotel Waiter:	One who waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance.
House Keeper/Housekeeper:	A female servant who has the chief care of the family, and superintends the other servants.
Housekeeping:	The family state in a dwelling; care of domestic concerns; management of home affairs.
Hous(e) Mover:	Mover: The person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.
House Servant:	See Servant below.
Insurance/Insurance agt. (agent):	Insurance: The premium paid for insuring property or life. Agent: One intrusted with the business of another; an attorney; a minister; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
Jeweler:	One who makes or deals in jewels and other ornaments.
Keeping:	A holding; restraint; custody; guard; preservation.
Keeping House/Keeps house:	See Housekeeping.
Keeps eating saloon:	Saloon: A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company, or for works of art ; a hall of reception; a large public room or parlor; applied also to halls for public entertainment or amusement; also, to apartments for specific public uses; as, the saloon of a steamboat, a refreshment saloon, or the like.
Laborer:	One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a man who does work that requires little skill, as distinguished from an artisan; -- sometimes called a laboring man.
Labors on farm:	See Farm. Labor: Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and the like; servile toil; exertion.
Land Lady:	1. A woman who has tenants holding from her. 2. The mistress of an inn, or lodging-house.
Laundress:	A female who employment is to wash clothes; a washer-woman.
Lawyer:	One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to institute suits in courts of law, and to prosecute or defend the cause of clients; -- a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates.
Leaf dealer:	Leaf: One of the three principal parts or organs of vegetation. It is developed by increase at its base from and about the stem, and has a definite shape and limited growth. See Dealer.
Machinist:	A constructor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.
Maker:	One who makes, forms, shapes, or molds; a manufacturer; often, especially, the Creator.
Makes bricks/Making brick:	See Maker. Brick: A hard body composed chiefly of clay and sand, tempered together with water, molded into regular forms, usually rectangular, dried in the sun, and burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.
Makes shoes:	Shoe: A covering for the foot, usually of leather, composed of a thick species for the sole, and a thinner kind for the upper part; also, any thing resembling a shoe in form or use.
Manager:	One who manages; a conductor or director; one who uses address in bringing about his purposes; as, the manager of a theater; the manager of a lottery, of a ball &c.
Manager in Warehouse:	See Manager and Warehouse.
Mantua Maker:	A ladies' dress-maker; one who makes women's clothes.
Manufacturer:	One who manufactures; a person engaged in the business of working raw materials into wares suitable for use.
Manufacturer of Tobacco/Manufacturer Tb:	See Manufacturer. See Tobacco.
Marble dealer:	Marble: Any species of calcareous stone or mineral, of a compact texture, and of a beautiful appearance, susceptible of a good polish; any firm limestone, fitted, either when polished or otherwise, for ornamental uses; also, other rocks of nearly the same hardness, capable of the same uses, as serpentine; also, but improperly, polished slabs of harder rocks, as porphyry, granite, and the like. See Dealer.
Mason:	A man whose occupation is to lay bricks and stones in walls or structures of any kind.
Matress (Mattress) maker:	See Maker. Mattress: A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss or other soft material, and quilted.
Mechanic:	One who works with machines or instruments; a workman or laborer other than agricultural; an artisan; an artificer; more specifically, one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, &c, into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instrument.
Merchant:	One who traffics or carries on trade: especially upon a large scale; one who buys goods to sell again; any one who is engaged in the purchase and sale of goods; a trafficker; a trader.
Militiaman:	One who belongs to the militia. Militia: The body of soldiers in a state enrolled for discipline, but engaged in actual service only in emergencies, as distinguished from regular troops, whose sole occupation is war or military service.
Miller:	One whose occupation is to attend a grist-mill. Grist-mill: A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers.
Milliner:	A person, usually a woman, who makes and sells head-dresses, hats or bonnets, &c , for women.
Millwright:	A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills.
Minister:	One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments.
Moulder (Molder):	One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape.
Nothing:	Not any thing; no thing; -- opposed to any thing or something.
Nurse:	One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as, (a.) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b.) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of sick persons.
On farm:	See Farm.
Ornamental Painter:	Ornamental: Serving to ornament; giving additional beauty; embellishing. Painter: See below.
Painter:	One whose occupation is to paint; one skilled in representing things in colors.
Paper Box Mfg. (Manufacturing):	See Manufacturer.
Peddler:	One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who carries about small commodities on his back, or in a cart or wagon, and sells them.
Phot. Artist (Photographist):	One who practices, or is skilled in, photography.
Physician:	A person skilled in physic or the art of healing; one whose profession is to prescribe remedies for disease.
Plasterer:	One who plasters. Plaster: To overlay or cover with plaster, as the partitions of a house, walls, and the like. A composition of lime, water, and sand, for coating walls and partitions of houses; also, gypsum or plaster of Paris, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, and the like.
Plasterer Mason:	See Plasterer and Mason.
Plough maker:	Plough: A well-known implement for turning up the soil, drawn by animal or other power.
Policeman:	One of the ordinary police.
Porter:	A man that has the charge of a door or gate; a door-keeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages.
Porter in store:	See Porter.
Postmaster:	The master of a post; as, (a.) One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post-horses. (b.) One who has charge of a post-office, and the distribution and forwarding of mails.
Preacher:	One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects.
Printer:	One who prints, impresses, or stamps; especially, one who prints books, newspapers and the like.
Printing:	The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer; typography.
Printing-office:	A place where books, pamphlets, and the like, are printed.
R.R. Agt. ( Agent ): R.R. Clerk Railroad agt. (Agt. / Agent )	See Agent. See Clerk.
Railroad:	A road or way on which iron rails are laid for wheels to run on, for the conveyance of heavy loads in vehicles.
Restaurant:	An eating-house.
Retail Dealer:	Retail: The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels, or at second hand. See Dealer.
Retail grocer:	See Retail and Grocer.
Retail liquor d./ Retail liquor dealer:	See Dealer. Liquor: 1. Any liquid or fluid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, and the like. 2. Especially, alcoholic or spiritous fluid, either distilled or fermented; a decoction, solution, or tincture.
Retail liquor store:	See Liquor and Retail. Store: 1. A place of deposit for large quantities; a store house; a ware- house; a magazine. 2. Hence, any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail.
Saddler:	One whose occupation is to make saddles.
Sailor:	One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the management of ships in navigation; a mariner; a seaman.
Sawyer:	One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel.
School teacher:	One who teaches or instructs a school.
Seamstress:	A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needle-woman.
Servant:	One who serves, or does service, voluntarily or involuntarily; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper.
Service:	The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior, or hired helper, or slave, &c., on a superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience.
Setting type:	Set: To put in type; as, to set up a page of copy; to arrange in words, lines, &c., ready for printing; as, to set up type.
Sewing:	The act or occupation of sewing using the needle.
Sewing machine agt. (Agent):	Sewing machine: A machine for reducing the labor of sewing by hand. See Agent.
Shoe Maker/ Shoemaker:	One whose occupation or trade is to make shoes and boots.
Shop:	1. A building in which goods, wares, drugs, &c., are sold by retail. 2. A building in which mechanics work.
Sportsman:	One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, and fowls.
Stone cutter::	One whose occupation is to cut or hew stone.
Stone mason:	A mason who works or builds in stone.
Supertender (Superintender):	One who superintends; a superintendent. Superintendent: One who has the oversight and charge of something, with the power of direction; as, the superintendent of an alms-house or work house; the superintendent of public works; the superintendent of customs or finance.
Tailor:	One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments.
Teach/Teacher/Teaching:	One who teaches or instructs, or one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.
Teamster:	One who drives a team. Team: Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed together to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, chariot, wagon, cart, sled, sleigh, and the like.
Tel. Operator (Telegraph Operator / Electro-magnetic telegraph ):	A telegraph in which an operator at one station causes words or signs to be recorded or exhibited at another by means of a current of electricity, generated by a battery, and transmitted over an intervening wire.
Teller in bank:	Teller: An officer of a bank, who counts over money received, and pays it out on checks.
Tinner:	1. One who works in the tin mines. 2. One who works in tin ware; a tinman.
Tobacco:	1. A plant, a native of America, of the genus Nicotiana, much used for smoking and chewing, and in snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste. 2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, &c, by being dried, and manufactured in various ways.
Tob. Dealer/Tobacco dealer:	See Tobacco and Dealer.
Tob. Manufactuer/Tob. Manufacturer/Tobacco manfac/tobacco manufacturer:	See Tobacco and Manufacturer.
Tobacco warehouse:	See Tobacco and Warehouse.
Tobacconest/Tobacconist/ Tobaconist:	A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.
Traveling agt.	Possibly a Traveler: 1. One who travels in any way. 2. Specifically, a commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections and the like.
Wagoner:	One who conducts a wagon; a wagon-driver.
Waiter:	One who waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance.
Waiter at hotel: Waiting House: Waits in house: Waits on house:	See Waiter.
Warehouse:	A storehouse for goods.
Ware house hand:	See Warehouse and Hand
Wash woman/ Washer woman/ Washes/Washing:	A woman who washes clothes for others, or for hire.
Watchman:	One who guards the streets of a city or building by night.
Welldigger:	As for Wellborer: One who digs or bores for water; one who makes wells.
Wheel wright:	A man whose occupation it is to make wheels and wheel-carriages, as carts and wagons.
Wife:	The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; -- correlative of husband.
Wood cutter:	1. A person who cuts wood. 2. One who makes wood-cuts; an engraver on wood.
Work:	To exert one's self for a purpose; to put forth effort for the attainment of an object; to labor; to operate; to be engaged in the performance of a task, a duty, or the like.
Work in Tob: Work in tobacco: Works in tob: Works in tobacco: Works in tobacco factory:	See Work, Tobacco and Factory.
Work on farm: Working on farm: Works at home farm laborer: Works on a farm:	See Work, Farm , Laborer.
Working in factory: Works at factory: Works factory:Works in a factory: Works in fac Works in factory:	See Work, Factory
Works at brick yard: Works brickyard: Works in brick: Works in brick yard: Works in brickyd:	See Work, Brick, Brickyard
Works in box factory: Works in box shop:	See Work, Box, Factory, Shop.
Works in carriage factory:	See Work, Carriage, Factory
Works in Jewellery (Jewelry):	Jewels in general; the art or trade of a jeweler.
Works in marble:	See Marble.
Works in printing/printing office:	See Printer or Printing-Office.
Works in restaurant:	See Restaurant.
Works in sack factory:	Sack: A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable materials, as cloth, leather, or the like; a large pouch. See Factory.
Works in snuff factory:	Pulverized tobacco or other substance, taken, or prepared to be taken, into the nose. See Factory.
Works in warehouse:	See Warehouse.
Works on railroad:	See Railroad.

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