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The quality or state of being rubicund; ruddiness. To parade your rubicundity and gray hairs. Walpole.

A trade name for benzoic sulphinide. [Written also saccharin.] C7H5NO3S.

A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value. [Tradesmen's Cant] Burnt sacrifice. See Burnt offering, under Burnt. -- Sacrifice hit (Baseball), in batting, a hit of such a kind that the batter loses his chance of tallying, but enables one or more who are on bases to get home or gain a base.…

The trade or employment of a saddler.

rganization for prosecuting the work of Christian evangelization, especially among the degraded populations of cities. It is virtually a new sect founded in London in 1861 by William Booth. The evangelists, male and female, have military titles according to rank, that of the chief being "General." They wear a uniform,…

An ignorant and degraded Turanian tribe which occupies a portion of Northern Russia and a part of Siberia.Samoyeds.

s along the seacoast, and is used for pickles. Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Scak.

A fine grade of woolen yarn twisted somewhat harder and smoother than zephyr yarn.

A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike. [Cant]

To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system. Scaling his present bearing with his past. Shak. To scale, or scale down, a debt, wages, etc., to reduce a debt, etc., according to a fixed ratio or scale. [U.S.]

Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf. But left the trade, as many more Have lately done on the same score. Hudibras. You act your kindness in Cydria's score. Dryden.

Barter; exchange; trade. [Obs.] And recompensed them with a better scorse. Spenser.

something that roughens by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly over; to abrade; to make even, or bring to a required condition or form, by moving the sharp edge of an instrument breadthwise over the surface with pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrap…

An harangue; a long tirade on any subject. The old carl gae them a screed of doctrine; ye might have heard him a mile down the wind. Sir W. Scott.

An article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; esp., a coarse or inferior kind of flour.

rd, From firm security. Shak. Some . . . alleged that we should have no security for our trade. Swift.

The act of degrading one's self, or the state of being so degraded.

To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price. To sell out, to sell one's whole stockk in trade or one's entire interest in a property or a business.

A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.

r in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.