Employ

·vt To Occupy; as, to employ time in study.

II. Employ ·vt To Inclose; to Infold.

III. Employ ·noun That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment.

IV. Employ ·vt To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an Envoy.

V. Employ ·vt To Use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something;

— often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, ·etc., for a specific purpose; to Apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies.