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Commerce; traffic; trade. [Obs.]

To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce. [Obs.]

The quahog.

A mercenary. [Obs.]

In a mercenary manner.

The quality or state of being mercenary; venality. Boyle.

Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers.

Originally, a dealer in any kind of goods or wares; now restricted to a dealer in textile fabrics, as silks or woolens. [Eng.]

To treat (cotton fiber or fabrics) with a solution of caustic alkali. Such treatment causes the fiber to shrink in length and become stronger and more receptive of dyes. If the yarn or cloth is kept under tension during the process, it assumes a silky luster. -- Mer`cer*i*za"tion (#), n.

The business of a mercer.

The trade of mercers; the goods in which a mercer deals.

To traffic. [Obs.] Bacon.

Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.

The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities. Spenser.

A trader. Bunyan.

Trade; commerce. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader. Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad. Shak.

market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.

Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant. [Obs.] Gauden.

A merchant. [Obs.] Matt. xiii. 45.