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a choice of either; as, he may study law, or medicine, or divinity, or he may enter into trade. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount. Cowper.

A harbor or port at some distance from the chief town or seat of trade. Macaulay.

Hence, to carry on any contraband trade. [Eng.]

cal result was the establishment of the Bureau of American Republics for the promotion of trade relations.

e shall be a communion of profit between them, and for the purpose of carrying on a legal trade, business, or adventure. Kent. Story.

Chaucer. Pass boat (Naut.), a punt, or similar boat. -- Pass book. (a) A book in which a trader enters articles bought on credit, and then passes or sends it to the purchaser. (b) See Bank book. -- Pass box (Mil.), a wooden or metallic box, used to carry cartridges from the service magazine to the piece. -- Pass che…

A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon. [Written also pattemar.]

To trade with customarily; to frequent as a customer. [Commercial Cant]

One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. [Written also pedlar and pedler.] "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." Hakluyt.

The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler.

One whose trade is to make or sell perfumes.

By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance. [Cant]

A gratuity given by tradesmen to customers settling their accounts. [Southern U. S.]

The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a rai…

A trade name for camlets, or stout worsteds.

A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.

A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade. B. Jonson.

y business, art, science, or branch of learning; an expert; an adept; as, proficient in a trade; a proficient in mathematics, music, etc.

or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor. Arbuthnot. -- Prof"it*a*ble*ness, n. -- Prof"it*a*bly, adv.

s of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade. Writ of protection. (Law) (a) A writ by which the king formerly exempted a person from arrest; -- now disused. [Eng.] Blackstone. (b) A judicial writ issued to a person required to attend court, as party, juror, etc., inten…