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People employed in trade; tradesmen. [R.] Swift.

One who trades; a shopkeeper.

People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.

A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.

Having, or walking on, hoofs.

Not dealt with in trade; not visited for purposes of trade. [Obs.] Hakluyt

ank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade. Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased. Luke xiv. ll.

Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

ing, or zero point, in the scale of absolute temperature. It is equivalent to -273º centigrade or -459.4º Fahrenheit.

One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade.

officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.

purious; without the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

erring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. Chesterfield.…

fends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.

liary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough. The merchant can afford to trade for smaller profits. Hamilton. He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. Wordsworth.

rn." Pope. The way which the age follows. J. H. Newman. Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.

isting of a basic iodide and gallate of bismuth, sometimes used in place of iodoform. [A Trademark]

The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.

sterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.