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Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.

Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.

face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.

A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.

ear. "religion is run down by the license of these times." Berkeley. (d) To disparage; to traduce. F. W. Newman. -- To run hard. (a) To press in competition; as, to run one hard in a race. (b) To urge or press importunately. (c) To banter severely. -- To run into the ground, to carry to an absurd extreme; to overdo.…

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.

A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time. And then the blue-eyed Norseman told A saga of the days of old. Longfellow.

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

used adjectively; as, a sarcina micrococcus; a sarcina group. Sarcina form (Biol.), the tetrad form seen in the division of a dumb-bell group of micrococci into four; -- applied particularly to bacteria. See micrococcus.

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 treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander. [R.] I do faws on men and hug them hard And after scandal them. Shak.

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.

A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.

A bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes; also, a genealogist. [Written also senachy.] [Scot.]

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

elly; to look after. Shak. I had a mind to see him out, and therefore did not care for centradicting him. Addison.

Self-contradictory; inconsistent. Brougham.