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as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.

One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain.

To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.

Capable of being chased; fit for hunting. Gower.

A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [Obs.] The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. Shak.

To salute or applaud with cheers; to urge on by cheers; as, to cheer hounds in a chase. To cheer ship, to salute a passing ship by cheers of sailors stationed in the rigging.

To purchase by way of truck.

The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased. Weale.

A tool with teeth, used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.

ubsistence (Mil. U. S.), the head of the subsistence department, who has charge of the purchase and issue of provisions for the army.

The excess that a purchaser would be willing to pay for a commodity over that he does pay, rather than go without the commodity; -- called also consumer's rent.

interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day. [Eng.]

he principle of a joint-stock association, for the production of commodities, or their purchase and distribution for consumption, or for the borrowing and lending of capital among its members. -- Coöperative store, a store established by a coöperative society, where the members make their purchases and share in the pr…

To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life. A d'amond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. Shak. Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. Shak.…

transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.

To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue. We coursed him at the heels. Shak.

g or moving rapidly. [Archaic] Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. Tennyson.

ual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support. Let him have your custom, but not your votes. Addison.

One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer. He has got at last the character of a good customer; by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it. Goldsmith.

To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold.