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a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade. tricks of the trade mean simply specialized knowledge, in a good or neutral sense. He comes to me for counsel, and I show him a trick. South. I know a trick worth two of that. Shak.

barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust. We will begin by supposing the international trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another. J. S. Mill.

High-grade stock in which trust funds may be legally invested. [Colloq.]

e, about the mouth of the Amazon. Also, their language, which is the basis of the Indian trade language of the Amazon.

taining to, or designating, an extensive family of languages of simple structure and low grade (called also Altaic, Ural-Altaic, and Scythian), spoken in the northern parts of Europe and Asia and Central Asia; of pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these languages.

imbs how turned, how broad his shoulders spread ! Pope. He was perfectly well turned for trade. Addison.

An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.

Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms. Typhoid fever, a disease formerly confounded with typhus, but essentially different from the latter. It is characterized by fever, lasting usually three or more weeks, diarrhæa with evacuations resembling pea soup in appear…

exceedingly, beyond what is common, natural, right, or proper; as, ultraconservative; ultrademocratic, ultradespotic, ultraliberal, ultraradical, etc.

To degrade from the cardinalship.

To degrade from the state of deity; to deprive of the character or qualities of a god; to deprive of the reverence due to a god. Addison.

authorized habitual dress of officers and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform. Undress parade (Mil.), a substitute for dress parade, allowed in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened.

en temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.

nformed stars (Astron.), stars not grouped into any constellation; informed stars. See Sporades.

rs; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union. A. Hamilton.

rinciples, or the system, of combination among workmen engaged in the same occupation or trade.

A member or supporter of a trades union.

he unit being one gram or one pound, and the temperature interval one degree of the Centigrade or Fahrenheit scale. When referred to the gram, it is called the gram degree. The British unit of heat, or thermal unit, used by engineers in England and in the United States, is the quantity of heat necessary to raise one po…

To degrade from the rank of a martyr. [Obs.] Fuller.

To deprive of a miter; to depose or degrade from the rank of a bishop. Milton.