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A long outer garment formerly worn by men and women, as well as by soldiers as part of their uniform.

A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

lible preservative against drowning . . . According to Chysostom, the midwives frequently sold it for magic uses. Grose. I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Dickens.

Commodities sold by a chandler.

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 house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house. The freedom of a chophouse. W. Irving.

Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.

rs. Civic crown (Rom. Antiq.), a crown or garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen in battle.

gold. -- Cloth measure, the measure of length and surface by which cloth is measured and sold. For this object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. -- Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from sup…

A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.

people of the North, during the Civil War, which afforded material comforts to the Union soldiers, and performed services of a religious character in the field and in hospitals. -- The United States Sanitary Commission, an organization formed by the people of the North to coöperate with and supplement the medical dep…

One of a corps of pensioned soldiers, as in London, employed as doorkeepers, messengers, etc.

ntage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc.

A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.

Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.

A present, as of corn, wine, or oil, made by a Roman emperor to the soldiers or the people; -- so called because measured to each in a congius. Addison.

One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor.

of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to cosign a cargo or a ship; to set apart.

A soldier in the Continental army, or a piece of the Continental currency. See Continental, a., 3.

A chapman; a dealer; a merchant. [Obs.] He would have sold his part of paradise For ready money, had he met a copeman. B. Jonson.