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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.

One who buys; a purchaser.

To redeem. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To buy too much.

To buy at less than the real value or worth; to buy cheaper than. [R.] J. Fletcher.

The things sold by auction or put up to auction. Ask you why Phryne the whole auction buys Pope.

Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court. Thus can the demigod, Authority, Make us pay down for our offe…

The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.

The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit. [Prov. Eng.]

hase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.

proceedings. Bouvier. Wharton. -- Bill of parcels, an account given by the seller to the buyer of the several articles purchased, with the price of each. -- Bill of particulars (Law), a detailed statement of the items of a plaintiff's demand in an action, or of the defendant's set-off. -- Bill of rights, a summary o…

One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.

imp. & p. p. of Buy.

A pimp or procurer. [Obs.] Shak. Bill broker, one who buys and sells notes and bills of exchange. -- Curbstone broker or Street broker, an operator in stocks (not a member of the Stock Exchange) who executes orders by running from office to office, or by transactions on the street. [U.S.] -- Exchange broker, one who b…

Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions. It seldom happens that men of a studious turn acquire any degree of reputation for their knowledge of business. Bp. Popteus.

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

To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions. [He] providently caters for the sparrow. Shak.

ptor Etym: [L.] (Law), let the purchaser beware, i. e., let him examine the article he is buying, and act on his own judgment.

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.