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Production of decorative designs by scratching them through a surface of layer plaster, glazing, etc., revealing a different- colored ground; also, pottery or ware so decorated; -- chiefly used attributively.

See Ingraft. [Obs.]

Mutual trade of traffic.

To misgraft. [Obs.] Shak.

To affect or care for unduly. [Obs.] Milton.

or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.

Sweepings; refuse; the lowest order of society. Beau & Fl.

To scramble or struggle; to wrangle; also, to be industrious. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style, in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so as to form the design from a dark ground underneath.

To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's transportation for a given period; -- a term and practice of restricted or erroneous usage.

Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.

Destitute of traffic, or trade.

aliphatic compounds thus include not only the fatty acids and other derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series.

A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.

A traffic in bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets.

el of the largest size. Where your argosies with portly sail . . . Do overpeer the petty traffickers. Shak.

s a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.

To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.