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An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount. [Obs.] Bacon.

A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.

orizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.

n object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members. They talked At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics. Tennyson. He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been…

The distribution of religious books, tracts, etc., by colporteurs.

The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat. Combustion results is common cases from the mutual chemical action and reaction of the combustible and the oxygen of the atmosphere, whereby a new compound is formed. Ure. Supporter of combustion (Chem.),…

commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services as a light porter, messenger, solicitor for hotels, etc.

ll (Legislation), to refer or intrust it to a committee or others, to be considered and reported. -- To commit to memory, or To commit, to learn by heart; to memorize.

A supporter of the commune of Paris.

w ill this dullness doth comport with greatness. Beau. & Fl. How their behavior herein comported with the institution. Locke.

of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. i. 17.

Any small bracket; also, a console table. Console table, a table whose top is supported by two or more consoles instead of legs.

An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.

candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death. -- Corpse gate, the gate of a burial place through which the dead are carried, often having a covered porch; -- called also lich gate.

A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons. Suckling.

To transport a vessel by means of a cradle. In Lombardy . . . boats are cradled and transported over the grade. Knight. To cradle a picture, to put ribs across the back of a picture, to prevent the panels from warping.

A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly in countris inhabited by the ancient Celts, and are of a period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these countries.

Supported upon crutches.

A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.

A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery. Sir W. Scott.