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Capable of being negotiated; transferable by assigment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange. Negotiable paper, any commercial paper transferable by sale or delivery and indorsement, as bills of exchange, drafts, checks, and promissory notes.

A negotiator. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.

nother respecting purchase and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm.

The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.

One who negotiates; a person who treats with others, either as principal or agent, in respect to purchase and sale, or public compacts.

Of or pertaining to negotiation.

A woman who negotiates. Miss Edgeworth.

The state of being busy; multitude of business. [Obs.]

Very busy; attentive to business; active. [R.] D. Rogers.

The state of being busily occupied; activity. [R.] D. Rogers.

The union of being and relation as distinguished from, and contrasted with, the ego. See Ego.

Obversely omegoid.

Having the form of the Greek capital letter Omega (

A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing oöspheres, as in the rockweeds (Fucus), and the orders Vaucherieæ and Peronosporeæ.

An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.

An American aromatic herb (Monarda didyma), with showy, bright red, labiate flowers.

Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir.

Divination by fountains. [R.]

Of the nature of a prolegomenon; preliminary; introductory; prefatory.

A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise. D. Stokes (1659). Sir W. Scott.