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A label to show the character or price of goods.

A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties. Swift.

A bag made of thin glazed muslin, used as a wrapper for dress goods. McElrath.

neidæ, which includes numerous small moths, many of which are injurious to woolen and fur goods and to cultivated plants. Also used adjectively.

ularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.

Subject to the payment of toll; as, tollable goods. Wright.

A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. [Obs.] He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. Wyclif (Mark ii. 14).

A truck, or barter; the exchange of labor for goods, not money. [Slang, Eng.]

The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship.

Instruments of any occupation. [Obs.] The house and household goods, his trade of war. Dryden.

A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.

A deliverer; -- a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives. Milner.

To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.

, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.

The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt.

The act of transshipping, or transferring, as goods, from one ship or conveyance to another. [Written also transhipment.]

Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things. [Colloq.]

A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and Flemish canals.

To adjust, as a ship, by arranging the cargo, or disposing the weight of persons or goods, so equally on each side of the center and at each end, that she shall sit well on the water and sail well; as, to trim a ship, or a boat.