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To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic.

r privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything, however obtained; as, the proprietor of a patented article is given a monopoly of its sale for a limited time; chartered trading companies have sometimes had a monopoly of trade with remote regions; a combinat…

Traffic at fairs; marketing; buying and selling. [Obs.] Common nundination of pardons. Abp. Bramhall.

To follow business; to traffic.

mble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton. Ode factor, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; -- used contemptuously.

To exchange; to barter; to traffic. [Obs.] Bought, trucked, permuted, or given. Hakluyt.

vision of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic. Finally, it favors the poolingof all issues. U. S. Grant.

them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere. -- Slave trader, one who traffics in slaves.

hich merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic. The customs of Alexandria were very great, it having been the staple of the Indian trade. Arbuthnot. For the increase of trade and the encouragement of the worthy burgesses of Woodstock, her majesty was minded to erect th…

It hath in solemn synods been decreed, Both by the Syracusians and ourselves, To admit no traffic to our adverse towns. Shak. Parent of gods and men, propitious Jove! And you, bright synod of the powers above. Dryden.

siness of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.

Full of trade; busy in traffic; commercial. Spenser.

Having no trade or traffic. Young.

e or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader.

To traffic in an itinerary manner; to peddle. [Written also traunt.] [Obs.]

One who trucks; a trafficker. No man having ever yet driven a saving bargain with this great trucker for souls. South.