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d in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader.

her by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade. A merchant of great traffic through the world. Shak. The traffic in honors, places, and pardons. Macaulay.

One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.

A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.

Trenchant. [Obs.] Spenser.

To commit, as to one's care; to intrust. Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war. Macaulay.

il. -- To turn back. (a) To give back; to return. We turn not back the silks upon the merchants, When we have soiled them. Shak.

To free from a spell; to disenchant. [R.] South.

Not blest; excluded from benediction; hence, accursed; wretched. "Unblessed enchanter." Milton.

To release from a charm, fascination, or secret power; to disenchant. Beau. & Fl.

g or involving trick or artifice; dishonest; unjust; unequal. You come, like an unfair merchant, to charge me with being in your debt. Swift. -- Un*fair"ly, adv -- Un*fair"ness, n.

he load from; to take out the cargo of; as, to unlade a ship or a wagon. The venturous merchant . . . Shall here unlade him and depart no more. Dryden.

Not salable; unmerchantable. -- n.

reak the power of (a spell); to release (a person) from the influence of a spell; to disenchant. [R.] Such practices as these, . . . The more judicious Israelites unspelled. Dryden.

es followed by of. [Obs.] "Where never foot did use." Spenser. He useth every day to a merchant's house. B. Jonson. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks. Milton.

or intellectual eye; scene; prospect; as, the view from a window. 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view. Campbell.

One who deals in wine; a wine seller, or wine merchant.

ussia in 1870, in the Franco-German war, organized such a navy, which was commanded by merchant seamen with temporary commissions, with the claim (in which England acquiesced) that it did not come within the meaning of the term privateer.

s of any kind; also, any acquittance or receipt showing the payment of a debt; as, the merchant's books are his vouchers for the correctness of his accounts; notes, bonds, receipts, and other writings, are used as vouchers in proving facts.

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