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That branch of science which treats of moving machines.

To traffic. [Obs.] Bacon.

Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.

he objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities. Spenser.

A trader. Bunyan.

Trade; commerce. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader. Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad. Shak.

ket; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.

Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant. [Obs.] Gauden.

A merchant. [Obs.] Matt. xiii. 45.

The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country.

colorless, gaseous, inflammable hydrocarbon, CH4; marsh gas. See Marsh gas, under Gas. Methane series (Chem.), a series of saturated hydrocarbons, of which methane is the first member and type, and (because of their general chemical inertness and indifference) called also the paraffin (little affinity) series. The ligh…

An instrument, resembling a eudiometer, to detect the presence and amount of methane, as in coal mines.

Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak.

Unlucky. R. Browning.

To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.

Having one the same appearance; having a mutual resemblance.

Silent and idle. [Colloq.] Boys can't sit mum-chance always. J. H. Ewing.

A contractile striated layer found in the bodies and stems of certain Infusoria.

Near; near at hand; closely. [Obs. or Scot.] Bacon.