Busied

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Busy \Bus"y\ (b[i^]z"z[y^]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Busied}
     (b[i^]z"z[i^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Busying}.] [AS. bysgian.]
     To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged;
     to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books.
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           Be it thy course to busy giddy minds
           With foreign quarrels.                   --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  busy
       adj 1: actively or fully engaged or occupied; "busy with her work";
              "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch"; "the line is
              busy" [ant: {idle}]
       2: overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a
          fussy design" [syn: {fussy}]
       3: intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering
          old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an
          officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's
          business" [syn: {interfering}, {meddlesome}, {meddling}, {officious},
           {busybodied}]
       4: crowdedwith or characterized by much activity; "a very busy
          week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport"
       5: (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable
          for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability;
          (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line);
          "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always
          engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy
          signal" [syn: {engaged}, {in use(p)}]
       v : keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly
           collection" [syn: {occupy}]
       [also: {busied}, {busiest}, {busier}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  busied
       See {busy}