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Tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use. Finishing coat. (a) (Plastering) the final coat of plastering applied to walls and ceilings, usually white and rubbed smooth. (b) (Painting) The final coat of paint, usually differently mixed applied from the others. -- Finishing press, a machine for pres…

- said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc. The carpenter . . . marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes. Is. xliv. 13.

Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.

way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market. To forestall the market, to buy or contract for merchandise or provision on its way to market, with the intention of selling it again at a higher price; to dissuade persons from bringing their goods or provisions there; or…

One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market. Locke.

A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.

atio of 16 to 1, which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively.

Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition; as, fresh vegetables, flowers, eggs, meat, fruit, etc.; recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made…

oarse hirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their ther clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock.

A California market fish (Pomancentrus rubicundus) of a deep scarlet color.

One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish.

To have a misgiving. [Obs.] My mind gives ye're reserved To rob poor market women. J. Webster.

d to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. C. Kingsley. To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.

One who pastures cattle, and rears them for market. The inhabitants be rather . . . graziers than plowmen. Stow.

One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer and dealer in London vegetable markets.

The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter. Hickory shad. (Zoöl.) (a) The mattowacca, or fall herring. (b) The gizzard shad.…

American sole (Achirus lineatus, or A. achirus), related to the European sole, but of no market value.

identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as, fair, n., a market, and fair, a., beautiful.

eable; unfavorable. Neither is it ill air only that maketh an ill seat, but ill ways, ill markets, and ill neighbors. Bacon. There 's some ill planet reigns. Shak.

or that in which money is invested. Before the investment could be made, a change of the market might render it ineligible. A. Hamilton. An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens. Hawthorne.