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To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits. [Brokers' Cant]

A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator. [Brokers' Cant]

right; patent medicines. Madder . . . in King Charles the First's time, was made a patent commodity. Mortimer.

To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named.

A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it. Burrill.

Any commodity reëxported; -- chiefly in the ptural.

The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States. We should now say, Cotton is the great staple, that is, the established merchandize, of Manchester. Trench.

t or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc.

nternational trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another. J. S. Mill.

Act or process of attempting to give an arbitrary market value or price to a commodity by governmental interference, as by maintaining a purchasing fund, making loans to producers to enable them to hold their products, etc.; -- used chiefly of such action by Brazil.

Sale; opportunity to sell; market. [Obs.] Shelton. There is no vent for any commodity but of wool. Sir W. Temple.