| • | To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh,
   physical or mechanical; to act. | 
											
															| • | To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in
   the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate
   effect on the human system. | 
											
															| • | To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral
   power or influence. | 
											
															| • | To perform some manual act upon a human body in a
   methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore
   soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc. | 
											
															| • | To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to
   speculative profits. | 
											
															| • | To produce, as an effect; to cause. | 
											
															| • | To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity;
   to work; as, to operate a machine. |