Busies [verb]

Every one, however, busies himself about things quite foreign to the work of the office.

He busies himself throughout twelve books in teaching his students how to use all possible means to persuasion.

Zoséphine busies herself with her riding-skirt, shifts her seat a little, and with studied carelessness assents.

We needed a word for the individual who busies himself with, or drives an automobile, and so we have adapted the word chauffeur.

In fact, he often has to leave the machine for a short time to look after itself while he busies himself with the gun.

It busies itself only with this absolutely necessary action.

Molly; a man who busies himself about women's affairs or does work that properly belongs to women.

Her sewing-basket lies beside her on the ground, and while the dog looks after the sheep, she busies herself with her work.

Its burrows are large excavations, and in the early autumn it busies itself in storing provisions for its long winter retreat.

Sitting on the ground close to us, he busies himself rolling a cigarette between brown, nicotine-stained fingers.