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A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain sizes. See Paper.

gs, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory. The memory of the just is blessed. Prov. x. 7. That ever-living man of memory, Henry the Fifth. Shak. The Nonconformists . . . have, as a body, always venerated her [El…

Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial. The expedition of the Argonauts was partly mercantile, partly military. Arbuthnot. Mercantile agency, an agency for procuring information of the standing and credit of merchants in…

Market; trade. [Obs.] Bp. Sprat.

A foreign trader. [Obs.] Shak.

Commerce; traffic; trade. [Obs.]

The trade of mercers; the goods in which a mercer deals.

The 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.

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

A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.

Of or pertaining to Mercury as the god of trade; hence, money- making; crafty. The mercurial wand of commerce. J. Q. Adams.

See Mister, a trade.

Calling; vocation; business; trade.

The spirit and traditions of military life. H. Spencer.

A collection or digest of Jewish traditions and explanations of Scripture, forming the text of the Talmud. [Written also Mischna.]

A trade, art, or occupation. [Obs.] In youth he learned had a good mester. Chaucer.

See Mystery, a trade.

A trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger.