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To traffic. [Obs.] Bacon.

Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.

To make merchandise of; to buy and sell. "Love is merchandised." Shak.

A trader. Bunyan.

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

One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.

A measuring rod. Ascham.

Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants. Howell.

To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.

To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.

One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.

Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.

To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One of the Monandria.

A Linnæan class of plants embracing those having but a single stamen.

Same as Monandrous.

Of or pertaining to monandry; practicing monandry as a system of marriage.

Of or pertaining to the monandria; having but one stamen.

The possession by a woman of only one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with polyandry.

See Moorpan.