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The gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other means.

A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles. Goods were conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs. Macaulay.

The practice of bartering goods; exchange; barter; truck. The truckage of perishing coin. Milton.

The business of conveying goods on trucks.

One who drives a truck, or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks.

, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for containing clothes or other goods; especially, one used to convey the effects of a traveler. Locked up in chests and trunks. Shak.

n future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust.

tee process. Trustee process (Law), a process by which a creditor may attach his debtor's goods, effects, and credits, in the hands of a third person; -- called, in some States, the process of foreign attachment, garnishment, or factorizing process. [U. S.]

t, to change one's uniform or colors; to go over to the opposite party. -- To turn one's goods or money, and the like, to exchange in the course of trade; to keep in lively exchange or circulation; to gain or increase in trade. -- To turn one's hand to, to adapt or apply one's self to; to engage in. -- To turn out.…

Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods.

o charge below or under; to charge less than is usual or suitable fro; as, to undercharge goods or services.

To take out of a ship or vessel; as, to unship goods.

Not sorted; not classified; as, a lot of unsorted goods.

The articles or goods supplied by upholsterers; the business or work of an upholsterer.

Value set upon a thing; estimated value or worth; as, the goods sold for more than their valuation. Since of your lives you set So slight a valuation. Shak.

A policy in which the value of the goods, property, or interest insured is specified; -- opposed to open policy.

ht wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others fore the transportation of goods. [Eng.]

The fine shag or nap of velvet; a piece of velvet; velvet goods.

niary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables.

To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses. [R.]