occupation road

A private road for the use of the occupiers of a farm or farms. *oc-cu-pā-tive, a . [English occupat ( e ); -ive.] Occupying or tending to occupy. oc-cu-pied, pa . par . or a. [OCCUPY.] oc-cu-pi-er, s. [Eng. occupy ; -er.] 1. One who occupies or takes po e ion of; one who holds or po e es; an occupant; as, the occu pier of a house or farm. *2. A trader; a retail dealer. "Mercury the master of merchants and occupiers." P. Holland: Plutarch's Morals , p. 692. oc-cu-pӯ, *oc-cu-pie, v . t. & i. [Fr. occuper, from Lat. occupo =to lay hold of, to take po e ion of, to occupy, from oc- = ob- , and capio =to take; Sp. ocupar ; Ital. occupare .] A. Transitive : 1. To seize; to take po e ion of and hold. "The military authorities will be consulted as to the positions which it may be considered nece ary to occuиру in that view."-London Daily Telegraph . 2. To hold in po e ion; to po e , to fill. "Palaces which ought to be occupied by better men."Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xvi. 3. To fill, to cover; to take up the room or space of. "It occupied a third of the hemisphere, or 60."Herschel: Astronomy (ed. 1858), § 556. *4. To po e , to enjoy. (With an obscene quib ble.) "These villains will make the word captain as odious as the word occupy ."- Shakesp .: Henry IV., Pt . II ., ii. 4. *5. To use in busine ; to make use of; to employ in traffic. "He made as though he had occasion to occupy money, and so borrowed a great sum of them."- North : Plutarch; Lives, p. 505. IMG:content-0222.png:[blocks in formation] be foto appear here and there to be met with notice; as, Gold occurs very rarely in Ireland. *5. To oppose, to obviate, to meet. (Followed by to.) "Before I begin that, I must occur to one specious objection against this proposition." - Bentley: Sermons, ser. 1. Õc-cur'-rençe, s. [Fr., from Lat. occur rens, pr. par. of occurro to occur (q. v.).) 1. The act or state of occurring or happening: accidental or incidental happening. 2. That which happens incidentally or unexpect edly; an incident, an accidental event, a casualty. "Fear does not, in sudden or hazardous occurrences , discompose his mind."-Locke: Of Education, § 115.