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. Distinguished by good humor and good breeding. Macaulay. -- Good cheap, literally, good bargain; reasonably cheap. -- Good consideration (Law). (a) A consideration of blood or of natural love and affection. Blackstone. (b) A valuable consideration, or one which will sustain a contract. -- Good fellow, a person of c…

To cheat in a bargain; to chouse. [Slang, U. S.]

To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle. Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood. Walpole.

One who haggles or is difficult in bargaining.

ard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms. I never could drive a hard bargain. Burke.

y or fairness and straightas, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession. An honest man's the noblest work of God. Pope. An honest physician leaves his patient when he can contribute no farther to his health. Sir W. Temple. Look ye out a…

To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains. Swift.

A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard. Pray make your bargain with all the prudence and selfishness of an old hunks. Gray.

To contract; to bargain or covenant. Shak. To indent and drive bargains with the Almighty. South.

Characterized by iniquity; unjust; wicked; as, an iniquitous bargain; an iniquitous proceeding. Demagogues . . . bribed to this iniquitous service. Burke.

To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

A bargain. [Obs.] Shak.

To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap. When they came to talk of places in town, you saw at once how I nailed them. Goldsmith.

To treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm.

An agreement; a compact; a bargain. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

Hence: The full value of one's penny expended; due return for money laid out; a good bargain; a bargain. The priests sold the better pennyworths. Locke.

Naut.), a nickname for a quadrant or sextant. -- A pig in a poke (that is, bag), a blind bargain; something bought or bargained for, without the quality or the value being known. [Colloq.]

To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

The action of a go-between or broker in negotiating immoral bargains between the sexes; procuring.

To repent of, and withdraw from, as a bargain; to get released from. [Prov. Eng.]