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tion of which is started by dropping a coin into a slot, for delivering small articles of merchandise, showing one's weight, exhibiting pictures, throwing dice, etc.

Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery. [Broker's Cant] Crescent spot (Zoöl.), any butterfly of the family Melitæidæ having crescent-shaped white spots along the margins of the red or brown wings. -- Spot lens (Microscopy), a condensing lens in which the light is confined to an annular pen…

A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.

One who keeps a stall for the sale of merchandise, especially books. Sterne.

The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.

To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.

e the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port. Abbot. Surveyor general.

In Cuba, Mexico, etc., a booth, stall, or shop where merchandise is sold.

er, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business. A free port, where nations . . . resorted with their goods and traded. Arbuthnot.

A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.

the personal credits increased by the difference between the debit and credit sums in the merchandise and other impersonal accounts equals the sum of personal debits. The equality would not show that the items were all correctly posted.

Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust.

on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.

Articles of merchandise; the sum of articles of a particular kind or class; style or class of manufactures; especially, in the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise. "Retails his wares at wakes." Shak. "To chaffer with them and eke to sell them their ware." Chaucer. It the people of the land bring ware or any victual…

A duty or toil paid for weighing merchandise. Bouvier.

A kind of large steelyard for weighing merchandise; -- also called weighmaster's beam.

One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.

One who raises coal or merchandise with a tackle from a chip's hold. [Eng.]

l, with projecting bow stern and convex decks, used in the Mediterranean for transporting merchandise, etc. It carries large square sails, or both. Xebecs were formerly armed and used by corsairs.