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Weak; inconsistent; contradictory. [R.] The evidance is crimp; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves. Arbuthnot.

A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory. Shaftesbury.

Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction. I do not bear these crossings. Shak.

A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly,…

A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.

One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer. He has got at last the character of a good customer; by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it. Goldsmith.

bsent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc. [Colloq.] An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity. Thomas Hamilton. To cut a caper. See under Caper. -- To cut the cards, to divide a pack of cards into portions, in order to determine the deal or…

se. Grounds were turned much in England either to feeding or dairy; and this advanced the trade of English butter. Temple.

-- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade. Goldsmith.

Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.

ailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour. They buy and sell, they deal and traffic. South. This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other petty merchants deal but for parcels. Dr. H. More.

One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.

Fitted to deceive; deceitful. [Obs.] The fraud of deceivable traditions. Milton.

. We can not demonstrate these things so as to show that the contrary often involves a contradiction. Tillotson.

charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction.

To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.

To lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc.

Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.

or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence. As touching traditional communication, . . . I do not doubt but many of those truths have had the help of that derivation. Sir M. Hale.

ins. Holland. Her due loves derived to that vile witch's share. Spenser. Derived to us by tradition from Adam to Noah. Jer. Taylor.