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usive right of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent, for a price or pecuniary equivalent; a seller; a vendor.

Capable of being vended, or sold; that may be sold; salable. The regulating of prices of things vendible. Bacon.

A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2. The wages of sin is death. Rom. vi. 23. Wages fund (Polit. Econ.), the aggregate capital existing at any time in any country, which theoretically is unconditionally destined to be paid out in wages. It was form…

Tending towards lower prices; as, a weak market.

To pay, allot, take, or give by weight. They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. Zech. xi. 12.

The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer. [Written also weregeld, weregelt, etc.] Blackstone.

f the mind; a temporary eccentricity; a freak; a fancy; a capricious notion; a humor; a caprice. Let every man enjoy his whim. Churchill.

to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price.

value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price. What 's worth in anything But so much money as 't will bring Hudibras.

the value of a thing in the number of years required for its income to yield its purchase price, in reckoning the amount to be paid for annuities, etc.