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Trade; commerce. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader. Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad. Shak.

rket; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.

Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant. [Obs.] Gauden.

A merchant. [Obs.] Matt. xiii. 45.

The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country.

Having the middle of the body surrounded by bands of cilia; -- said of the larvæ of certain marine annelids.

The feat of the archangel Michael, a church festival, celebrated on the 29th of September. Hence, colloquially, autumn. Michaelmas daisy. (Bot.) See under Daisy.

Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak.

Unlucky. R. Browning.

To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.

To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.

A variety of coffee brought from Mocha.

Of or pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic.

; regal; imperial. Satan, whom now transcendent glory raised Above his fellows, with monarchal pride. Milton.

posable into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some, a hexose. The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a ketone group.

A kind of easy-chair with a back which may be lowered or raised.

A plant of the genus Adoxa (A. moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also hollow root and musk crowfoot. Loudon.

Silent and idle. [Colloq.] Boys can't sit mum-chance always. J. H. Ewing.

An extravagant fiction embodying an account of some marvelous exploit or adventure.