In mercantile usage, an establishment or firm for the transaction of business. It is provincial in England, and denotes a small estate; from whence our use of the word is derived.
·vi To be of importance. II. Concern ·noun That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
a little estate. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
·noun Concern for one's self. ...