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ly, kept by the seller, and the payments being made weekly or otherwise by agreement. The trade thus regulated is called tally trade. Eng. Encyc. -- To strike tallies, to act in correspondence, or alike. [Obs.] Fuller.

One who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his business as tally trade.

circuit. Foreign consuls and commissioners associated with taotais as superintendants of trade at the treaty ports are ranked with the taotai.

or more feet in length, and has large silvery scales. The scales are a staple article of trade, and are used in fancywork. Called also tarpon, sabalo, savanilla, silverfish, and jewfish.

That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like. The technicalities of the sect. Palfrey.

A tradesman's bill or account. [Obs.]

chan stock. Previous to deterioration from contact with the whites they were the foremost traders of the northwest. They built substantial houses of cedar adorned with totem poles, and were expert stone carvers and copper workers. Slavery, the potlatch, and the use of immense labrets were characteristic. Many now work…

ble of being regarded as a limit to a tendency, movement, or action; as, he is going to a trade; he is rising to wealth and honor.

A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle. They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys, great abundance of gold and pearl. Abr. Abbot.

Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company.

erson to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.

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

Destitute of traffic, or trade.

; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade. tricks of the trade mean simply specialized knowledge, in a good or neutral sense. He comes to me for counsel, and I show him a trick. South. I know a trick worth two of that. Shak.

o barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust. We will begin by supposing the international trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another. J. S. Mill.

se, about the mouth of the Amazon. Also, their language, which is the basis of the Indian trade language of the Amazon.

limbs how turned, how broad his shoulders spread ! Pope. He was perfectly well turned for trade. Addison.

An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.

, exceedingly, beyond what is common, natural, right, or proper; as, ultraconservative; ultrademocratic, ultradespotic, ultraliberal, ultraradical, etc.

hen temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.