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rchant on his own account. A bill of adventure (Com.), a writing setting forth that the goods shipped are at the owner's risk.

give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.

In the old Norse mythology, the gods Odin, Thor, Loki, Balder, Frigg, and the others. Their home was called Asgard.

Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches. Language . . . affluent in expression. H. Reed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. Prior.

ranting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.

To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight.

One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.

toward from behind; following, in search of; in pursuit of. Ye shall not go after other gods. Deut. vi. 14. After whom is the king of Israel come out 1 Sam. xxiv. 14.

A cultivator of the soil; an agriculturist. Dodsley.

That branch of agriculture dealing with the methods of conversion of agricultural products into manufactured articles; agricultural technology.

A thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply mode. Buchanan.

The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.

In a manner conformable to allopathy; by allopathic methods.

The worship of strange gods. Jer. Taylor.

A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.

An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.

One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites.

With a narrow mouth, as the shell of certain gastropods.