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The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.

The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit. [Prov. Eng.]

A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster. Shak.

ion. Blackstone. -- Into the bargain, over and above what is stipulated; besides. -- To sell bargains, to make saucy ( usually indelicate) repartees. [Obs.] Swift. -- To strike a bargain, to reach or ratify an agreement. "A bargain was struck." Macaulay.

One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another. Blackstone.

A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.

One who sells books.

The trade or business of selling books.

e of judicial proceedings. Bouvier. Wharton. -- Bill of parcels, an account given by the seller to the buyer of the several articles purchased, with the price of each. -- Bill of particulars (Law), a detailed statement of the items of a plaintiff's demand in an action, or of the defendant's set-off. -- Bill of right…

o registers passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.

A bookseller's shop. [Eng.]

A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.

One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.

hence, the vessel itself; a ship. My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. Shak. Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. Bancroft. Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise.

One who makes or sells bows.

best age for the boar is from two to five years, at which time it is best to geld him, or sell him for brawn. Mortimer.

To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch; as, what does coal bring per ton To bring about, to bring to pass; to effect; to accomplish. -- To bring back. (a) To recall. (b) To restore, as something borrowed, to its owner. -- To bring by the lee (Naut.), to incline so rapidly to leeward of the course, when a ship…

A pimp or procurer. [Obs.] Shak. Bill broker, one who buys and sells notes and bills of exchange. -- Curbstone broker or Street broker, an operator in stocks (not a member of the Stock Exchange) who executes orders by running from office to office, or by transactions on the street. [U.S.] -- Exchange broker, one who b…

The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.

Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions. It seldom happens that men of a studious turn acquire any degree of reputation for their knowledge of business. Bp. Popteus.