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and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week. He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs. Shak. Three women and a goose make a market. Old Saying.

ith wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.

One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. [Written also pedlar and pedler.] "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." Hakluyt.

The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler.

The keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to retail beer, spirits, or wine.

a phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India.

A sale at second hand, or at retail; also, a second sale. Bacon.

To sell again; to sell what has been bought or sold; to retail.

one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail.

of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.

A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail. From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter. Cowper.

A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. Addison.

A shopkeeper; a retailer. Dryden.

Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop. [U.S. & British Colonies]

c), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.

A house where liquors are retailed.

le or class of manufactures; especially, in the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise. "Retails his wares at wakes." Shak. "To chaffer with them and eke to sell them their ware." Chaucer. It the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the Sabbath,…

Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail. By wholesale, in the mass; in large quantities; without distinction or discrimination. Some, from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale. I. Watts.