Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

         Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign
         quarrels.                                --Shak.