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The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.…

lic notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.

tolic foundation, doctrine, and order. The churches of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem were called apostolic churches. -- Apostolic constitutions, directions of a nature similar to the apostolic canons, and perhaps compiled by the same authors or author. -- Apostolic fathers, early Christian writers, who wer…

See Jerusalem artichoke.

ing of a body with foul water; calumny. Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers. Grote. Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue. Dryden.

A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.

ho sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.

Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction. The avails of their own industry. Stoddard.

The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales. [U.S.]

passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.

An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration. A contract is a bargain that is legally binding. Wharton.…

One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.

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.

In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.

se are often stained or lacquered in imitation of bronze. -- Berlin shop, a shop for the sale of worsted embroidery and the materials for such work. -- Berlin work, worsted embroidery.

Of or pertaining to the sale of books. "Bibliopolic difficulties." Carlyle.

rinted, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill. She put up the bill in her parlor window. Dickens.

One who has for sale the various kinds of birds which are kept in cages.

obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.

A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall.