Trade (?), n. [Formerly, a path, OE.
tred a footmark. See Tread, n. &
v.] 1. A track; a trail; a way; a
path; also, passage; travel; resort. [Obs.]
A postern with a blind wicket there was,
A common trade to pass through Priam's house.
Surrey.
Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes
trade.
Spenser.
Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway,
Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet
May hourly trample on their sovereign's head.
Shak.
2. Course; custom; practice; occupation;
employment. [Obs.] "The right trade of religion."
Udall.
There those five sisters had continual
trade.
Spenser.
Long did I love this lady,
Long was my travel, long my trade to win her.
Massinger.
Thy sin's not accidental but a trade.
Shak.
3. Business of any kind; matter of mutual
consideration; affair; dealing. [Obs.]
Have you any further trade with us?
Shak.
4. Specifically: The act or business of exchanging
commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce;
traffic; barter.
&fist; Trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in
the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills, or in money; but it is
chiefly used to denote the barter or purchase and sale of goods, wares, and
merchandise, either by wholesale or retail. Trade is either foreign
or domestic. Foreign trade consists in the exportation and
importation of goods, or the exchange of the commodities of different
countries. Domestic, or home, trade is the exchange, or
buying and selling, of goods within a country. Trade is also by the
wholesale, that is, by the package or in large quantities, generally
to be sold again, or it is by retail, or in small parcels. The
carrying trade is the business of transporting commodities from one
country to another, or between places in the same country, by land or
water.
5. The business which a person has learned, and
which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation;
especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts,
the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade
of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a
farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician.
Accursed usury was all his trade.
Spenser.
The homely, slighted, shepherd's trade.
Milton.
I will instruct thee in my trade.
Shak.
6. Instruments of any occupation. [Obs.]
The house and household goods, his trade of
war.
Dryden.
7. A company of men engaged in the same occupation;
thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade,
and are collectively designated as the trade.
8. pl. The trade winds.
9. Refuse or rubbish from a mine. [Prov.
Eng.]
Syn. -- Profession; occupation; office; calling; avocation;
employment; commerce; dealing; traffic.
Board of trade. See under Board. --
Trade dollar. See under Dollar. --
Trade price, the price at which goods are sold to
members of the same trade, or by wholesale dealers to retailers. --
Trade sale, an auction by and for the trade,
especially that of the booksellers. -- Trade wind,
a wind in the torrid zone, and often a little beyond at, which blows
from the same quarter throughout the year, except when affected by local
causes; -- so called because of its usefulness to navigators, and hence to
trade.
&fist; The general direction of the trade winds is from N. E. to S. W.
on the north side of the equator, and from S. E. to N. W. on the south side
of the equator. They are produced by the joint effect of the rotation of
the earth and the movement of the air from the polar toward the equatorial
regions, to supply the vacancy caused by heating, rarefaction, and
consequent ascent of the air in the latter regions. The trade winds are
principally limited to two belts in the tropical regions, one on each side
of the equator, and separated by a belt which is characterized by calms or
variable weather.
Trade (?), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Traded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Trading.] 1. To barter, or to buy and sell; to
be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise,
or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a
business.
A free port, where nations . . . resorted with their goods
and traded.
Arbuthnot.
2. To buy and sell or exchange property in a single
instance.
3. To have dealings; to be concerned or associated;
-- usually followed by with.
How did you dare to trade and traffic with
Macbeth?
Shak.
Trade, v. t. To sell or exchange in
commerce; to barter.
They traded the persons of men.
Ezek.
xxvii. 13.
To dicker and to swop, to trade rifles and
watches.
Cooper.
Trade, obs. imp. of
Tread.
Trade (?), n. [Formerly, a path, OE.
tred a footmark. See Tread, n. &
v.] 1. A track; a trail; a way; a
path; also, passage; travel; resort. [Obs.]
A postern with a blind wicket there was,
A common trade to pass through Priam's house.
Surrey.
Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes
trade.
Spenser.
Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway,
Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet
May hourly trample on their sovereign's head.
Shak.
2. Course; custom; practice; occupation;
employment. [Obs.] "The right trade of religion."
Udall.
There those five sisters had continual
trade.
Spenser.
Long did I love this lady,
Long was my travel, long my trade to win her.
Massinger.
Thy sin's not accidental but a trade.
Shak.
3. Business of any kind; matter of mutual
consideration; affair; dealing. [Obs.]
Have you any further trade with us?
Shak.
4. Specifically: The act or business of exchanging
commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce;
traffic; barter.
&fist; Trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in
the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills, or in money; but it is
chiefly used to denote the barter or purchase and sale of goods, wares, and
merchandise, either by wholesale or retail. Trade is either foreign
or domestic. Foreign trade consists in the exportation and
importation of goods, or the exchange of the commodities of different
countries. Domestic, or home, trade is the exchange, or
buying and selling, of goods within a country. Trade is also by the
wholesale, that is, by the package or in large quantities, generally
to be sold again, or it is by retail, or in small parcels. The
carrying trade is the business of transporting commodities from one
country to another, or between places in the same country, by land or
water.
5. The business which a person has learned, and
which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation;
especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts,
the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade
of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a
farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician.
Accursed usury was all his trade.
Spenser.
The homely, slighted, shepherd's trade.
Milton.
I will instruct thee in my trade.
Shak.
6. Instruments of any occupation. [Obs.]
The house and household goods, his trade of
war.
Dryden.
7. A company of men engaged in the same occupation;
thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade,
and are collectively designated as the trade.
8. pl. The trade winds.
9. Refuse or rubbish from a mine. [Prov.
Eng.]
Syn. -- Profession; occupation; office; calling; avocation;
employment; commerce; dealing; traffic.
Board of trade. See under Board. --
Trade dollar. See under Dollar. --
Trade price, the price at which goods are sold to
members of the same trade, or by wholesale dealers to retailers. --
Trade sale, an auction by and for the trade,
especially that of the booksellers. -- Trade wind,
a wind in the torrid zone, and often a little beyond at, which blows
from the same quarter throughout the year, except when affected by local
causes; -- so called because of its usefulness to navigators, and hence to
trade.
&fist; The general direction of the trade winds is from N. E. to S. W.
on the north side of the equator, and from S. E. to N. W. on the south side
of the equator. They are produced by the joint effect of the rotation of
the earth and the movement of the air from the polar toward the equatorial
regions, to supply the vacancy caused by heating, rarefaction, and
consequent ascent of the air in the latter regions. The trade winds are
principally limited to two belts in the tropical regions, one on each side
of the equator, and separated by a belt which is characterized by calms or
variable weather.
Trade (?), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Traded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Trading.] 1. To barter, or to buy and sell; to
be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise,
or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a
business.
A free port, where nations . . . resorted with their goods
and traded.
Arbuthnot.
2. To buy and sell or exchange property in a single
instance.
3. To have dealings; to be concerned or associated;
-- usually followed by with.
How did you dare to trade and traffic with
Macbeth?
Shak.
Trade, v. t. To sell or exchange in
commerce; to barter.
They traded the persons of men.
Ezek.
xxvii. 13.
To dicker and to swop, to trade rifles and
watches.
Cooper.
Trade, obs. imp. of
Tread.
