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A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. Addison.

One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal.

Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.

Suiting a shop; vulgar. B. Jonson.

A shopgirl.

A shopkeeper; a retailer. Dryden.

One who shops.

Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman.

Abounding with shops. [Colloq.]

The trick of a shopkeeper; deception. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.

A woman employed in a shop.

Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop.

A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold.

o-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.

A salt of sulphophosphoric acid.

A salt of sulphophosphorous acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphoric acid, and known in its salts.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical acid of phosphorus, analogous to phosphorous acid, and known in its salts.

A corruption of Swan-upping. [Eng.] Encyc. Brit.