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A market fish, the goody, or spot (Liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.

s. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the "plover's eggs" of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.

A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will. [Obs.]

A place where milch cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged. [Obs.]

A measuring line or cord. He marketh it out with a line. Is. xliv. 13.

ess of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.

rom the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn. Longfellow. [U.S.]

he principal street in London for banks and the offices of note brokers; hence, the money market and interest of London.

To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. [U.S.]

In various parts of Asia, an open space, as for military exercises, or for a market place; an open grassy tract; an esplanade.

and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market.

n of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns.

A market. Where has commerce such a mart . . . as London Cowper.

One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.

Market; trade. [Obs.] Bp. Sprat.

The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities. Spenser.

Fit for market; 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.

he exclusive power, right, or 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 wit…

One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank ... is preferred before an able physician. Whitlock.…

Of or pertaining to a fair, or to a market day. Nundinal letter, among the Romans, one of the first eight letters of the alphabet, which were repeated successively from the first to the last day of the year. One of these always expressed the market day, which returned every nine days (every eight days by our reckoning)…