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. -- Butter trier, a tool used in sampling butter. -- Butter wife, a woman who makes or sells butter; -- called also butter woman. [Obs. or Archaic]

A man who makes or sells butter.

eeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries. B. Franklin.

The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

A all for bidders at a public sale; an auction. "To sell their leases by cant." Swift.

One whose business is to make or sell caps.

One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.

t men carried Stephen to his burial. Acts viii, 2. Another carried the intelligence to Russell. Macaulay. The sound will be carried, at the least, twenty miles. Bacon.

Immediate or prompt payment in current funds; as, to sell goods for cash; to make a reduction in price for cash. Cash account (Bookkeeping), an account of money received, disbursed, and on hand. -- Cash boy, in large retail stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier,…

To sell wine or victuals. [Obs.] Warburfon.

Relating to a hundred. Cental system, the method of buying and selling by the cental, or hundredweight.

To buy or sell; to trade in. He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set. Spenser.

A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay.

ng a chant. To chant (or chaunt) horses, to sing their praise; to overpraise; to cheat in selling. See Chaunter. Thackeray.

A buyer; a chapman. [Obs.] If you want to sell, here is your chap. Steele.

One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. [Obs.] The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller.

A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. [Slang, Eng.]

ost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value. Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. Locke.

A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.

A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.