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A large vessel in the India trade. Macaulay.

usiness; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the iron industry; the cotton industry.

is preexistent to the body, and is infused into it at conception or birth; -- opposed to tradicianism and creationism.

Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade.

med; an insinuation. Mercury . . . owns it a marriage by an innuendo. Dryden. Pursue your trade of scandal picking; Your innuendoes, when you tell us, That Stella loves to talk with fellows. Swift.

rded, protected, or sustained; unsafe; unstable; exposed to danger or loss. Bp. Hurg. The trade with Egypt was exceedingly insecure and precarious. Mickle.

e point or part by which a muscle or tendon is attached to the part to be moved; -- in contradistinction to its origin. Epigynous insertion (Bot.), the insertion of stamens upon the ovary. -- Hypogynous insertion (Bot.), insertion beneath the ovary.

ristic marks or signs, by which anything is known or distinguished; as, the insignia of a trade.

ndition of one who is unable to pay his debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business; as, a merchant's insolvency.

to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and business; as, in insolvent debtor.

A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number. Complex integer (Theory of Numbers), an expression of the form a + bsq. root-1, where a and b are real integers.

olonies; pertaining to the intercourse or mutual relations of colonies; as, intercolonial trade. -- In`ter*co*lo"ni*al*ly, adv.

interests; especially, (said of a country) domestic, as opposed to foreign; as, internal trade; internal troubles or war.

Mutual trade of traffic.

mply. He knows His end with mine involved. Milton. The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction. Tillotson.

Rigid; unyielding; as, ironbound traditions.

The art or trade of a jeweler. Cotgrave.

solar calendar in use among Hebraic peoples, reckoning from the year 3761 b. c., the date traditionally given for the Creation. It received its present fixed form from Hillel II. about 360 a. d. The present names of the months, which are Babylonian- Assyrian in origin, replaced older ones, Abib, Bul, etc., at the time…

A dealer in horses; a horse trader. Macaulay.

The art, or trade, of a joiner; the work of a joiner. A piece of joinery . . . whimsically dovetailed. Burke.