Busybody

An officious meddling person. "Busy-bodies and intermeddlers are a dangerous sort of people to have to do withal."-L'Estrange. But, conj . and prep . [A.S. but an , but on ; originally the imperative of A.S. be on -utan, to be out.] Except; besides; unle ; save. "Your poem hath been printed, and we have no objection but the obscurity of several pa ages, by our ignorance in facts and persons."- Swift . Busk, n. [Fr. busc , from L. Lat. box us , a wood.] A piece of something, originally wood, worn by women to strengthen their stays; the quilted belly of a doublet; -Excepting that; were it not that; unle . a piece of steel, whalebone, or wood, worn by women on the breast. Busked, a. Wearing a busk. Bus'ket, n. [It. boschetto .] A sprig or small bush. A compartment of shrubs in a garden. (R.)