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Barter. [Obs.] See Scorse.

Barter; exchange; trade. [Obs.] And recompensed them with a better scorse. Spenser.

An exchange; a barter. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.

A truck, or barter; the exchange of labor for goods, not money. [Slang, Eng.]

Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.

One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader.

from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.

To exchange; to give in exchange; to 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.

The practice of bartering goods; exchange; barter; truck. The truckage of perishing coin. Milton.

One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.

Not traded in or bartered; hence, not hackneyed; unusual; not common. Shak.

ing bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; made matter of trade or barter; held for sale; salable; mercenary; purchasable; hireling; as, venal services. " Paid court to venal beauties." Macaulay. The venal cry and prepared vote of a passive senate. Burke.