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y consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.

In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.

y subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.

That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak.

speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favor. Sir W. Scott.

; to impart; -- with on or upon. Empire is on us bestowed. Cowper. Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor. 1 Cor. xiii. 3.

and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill. She put up the bill in her parlor window. Dickens.

To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.

Perishable goods. Bouvier.

The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.

, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to coertain regulations. Bonded goods, goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods, for the duties on which bonds are given at the customhouse. -- Bonded warehouse, a warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint c…

One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.

To lay open as by breaking; to divide; as, to break a package of goods.

A kind of kotton goods, figured on the weaving.

s properties, to dextrin, and is used, in solution, as a substitute for gum in stiffering goods. -- British lion, the national emblem of Great Britain. -- British seas, the four seas which surround Great Britain.

Woven with a figure; as, broché goods.

A dealer in secondhand goods. [Eng.]

loose in the hold or not inclosed in boxes, bales, or casks. -- Sale by bulk, a sale of goods as they are, without weight or measure.

A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.

A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods.