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Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods.

A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. State Trials (1196).

An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be added, according to the degree of guilt.

A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are received. [Slang] Mayhew.

A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.

has recovered in debt or damages, commanding the sheriff that he cause to be made of the goods, chattels, or real estate of the defendant, the sum claimed. Blackstone. Cowell.

Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure. [Colloq.] With nineteen thousand a year at the very lowest figure. Thackeray.

To run in dept by getting goods made up in a way unsuitable for the use of others, and then threatening not to take them except on credit. [R.] Goldsmith.

Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson. Blackstone.

tached for the satisfaction of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands of a third person; -- called in some States trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee process. Kent. Tomlins. Cowell. -- Foreign bill, a bill drawn in one country,…

uct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market. To forestall the market, to buy or contract for merchandise or provision on its way to market, with the intention of selling it again at a higher price; to dissuade persons from bringing their goods or…

an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act. Under pain of foreiture of the said goods. Hakluyt.

One who sends forward anything; (Com.) one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant.

regardless of formalities. [Colloq.] "Sal and her free and easy ways." W. Black. -- Free goods, goods admitted into a country free of duty. -- Free labor, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from that of slaves. -- Free port. (Com.) (a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free of custom duty. (b) A por…

The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods. Wharton.

fruit, etc.; recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made public; as, fresh news; recently taken from a well or spring; as, fresh water.

To sell upon credit, as goods. [R.] Crabb.

Movable goods which may be valued by weight or measure, in contradistinction from those which must be judged of individually. Jamieson.

A dealer in furs; one who makes or sells fur goods.

A kind of coarse cloth for packing goods. [Obs.]