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A coarse cloth made of hemp, and used for packing goods, etc. [Written also sarpelere.] Tyrwhitt.

A kind of dress goods made of cotton or woolen, with a glossy surface resembling satin.

A toll duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts. Cowell.

rant legally issued, authorizing an examination or search of a house, or other place, for goods stolen, secreted, or concealed.

To deposit in a place of hiding; to hide; to conceal; as, to secrete stolen goods; to secrete one's self.

The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.

n of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.

f court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate. Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics. Blackstone.…

erving. To serve an attachment or a writ of attachment (Law), to levy it on the person or goods by seizure, or to seize. -- To serve an execution (Law), to levy it on a lands, goods, or person, by seizure or taking possession. -- To serve an office, to discharge a public duty. -- To serve a process (Law), in general…

is usual place of abode. -- Service of an attachment (Law), the seizing of the person or goods according to the direction. -- Service of an execution (Law), the levying of it upon the goods, estate, or person of the defendant. -- Service pipe, a pipe connecting mains with a dwelling, as in gas pipes, and the like. T…

joy, or suffer with others. A right of inheritance gave every one a title to share in the goods of his father. Locke.

One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.

Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.

A document used in shipping goods by sea. In the case of free goods the shipping notes are the receiving note, addressed by the shipper to the chief officer of the vessel, requesting him to receive on board specified goods, and a receipt for the mate to sign, on receiving whose signature it is called the mate's receipt…

A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.

A fibrous material obtained by "deviling," or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo.

A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail. From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter. Cowper.

A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. Addison.

One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal.

Duty paid for goods brought on shore. Grabb.