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A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.

To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.

One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.

Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value. Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. Locke.

ts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated. Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not reconcilable with the present state of civilized society. J. Quincy.

rasp; to catch or snatch; -- often followed by at. Clutching at the phantoms of the stock market. Bankroft.

A gang of negro slaves being driven to market.

THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. Pennant.

nd in an hour. -- To cover one's short contracts (Stock Exchange), to buy stock when the market rises, as a dealer who has sold short does in order to protect himself. -- Covering party (Mil.), a detachment of troops sent for the protection of another detachment, as of men working in the trenches. -- To cover into,…

A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market.

onument in the form of a cross, or surmounted bu a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London. Dun-Edin's Cross, a pillared stone, Rose on a turret octagon. Sir W. Scott.

One who piks or chooses; esp., an inspector who select wares suitable for market.

A place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods. The débouchés were ordered widened to afford easy egress. The Century.

to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.

One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market. Why, that's spoken like an honest drover; so they sell bullocks. Shak.

Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight. Honors are easy (Card Playing), said when each side has an equal number of honors, in which case they are not counted as points.

A 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.

to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power. Engrossed bill (Legislation), one which has been plainly engrossed on parchment, with all its amendments, preparatory to final action on its passage. -- Engrossing hand (Penmanship), a fair, round style…

One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller. Locke.

A fair or market. [Obs.] Chaucer.