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29. (b) [ About, adv.] Naut., to tack. (c) [ About, prep.] To engage in; undertake; set to work at: as, to go about an enterprise. All men be knowen by the workes they vse to go about . Babees Book (E. E. T. Š.), p. 95. To go about one's busine , to pursue one's occupation; attend to one's own affairs; in the imperative, go away; be off. Indeed 'tis not improbable that these fellows were Fishermen, and going about their busine . Dampier , Voyages, II. 1. 89. Let him have half-a-crown from me, said I, and desire him to go about his busine . Bruce , Source of the Nile, I. 109. To go abroad. (a) To go away from home; leave one's house. ..