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dies, but the term is commonly applied to various educational institutions organized on a commercial basis, some of which offer a large variety of courses in general and technical subjects, conducted by specialists.

One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.

Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise.

ounting until it become due. -- Discount broker, one who makes a business of discounting commercial paper; a bill broker. -- Discount day, a particular day of the week when a bank discounts bills. -- True discount, the interest which, added to a principal, will equal the face of a note when it becomes due. The princ…

The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn.

One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.

A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [U.S.]

place of trade; a market place; a mart; esp., a city or town with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country. That wonderful emporium [Manchester] . . . was then a mean and ill- built market town. Macaulay. It is pride . . . which fills our streets, our emporiums, our theathers. Knox.

il power; as, the Episcopal establishment of England. (b) A permanent civil, military, or commercial, force or organization. (c) The place in which one is permanently fixed for residence or business; residence, including grounds, furniture, equipage, etc.; with which one is fitted out; also, any office or place of busi…

A written official recognition of a consul or commercial agent, issued by the government to which he is accredited, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the place to which he is assigned.

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company's factory at Madras." Burke.

That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc.

Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world. Strive to keep up a frail and feverish bing. Milton. -- Fe"ver*ish*ly, adv. -- Fe"ver*ish*ness, n.

An order of sponges having a fibrous skeleton, including the commercial sponges.

Pertaining to finance. "Our financial and commercial system." Macaulay.

style, under which a company transacts business; a partnership of two or more persons; a commercial house; as, the firm of Hope & Co.

Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.

To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable

To hunt with a hawk. [Obs.] Bacon. To fly a kite (Com.), to raise money on commercial notes. [Cant or Slang]

A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.