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trade or traffic. The public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive commerce of private men. Hume.

A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.

societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories. To live on terms of amity with vice. Cowper.

sing the extension of the empire and the closer relation of its parts, esp. in matters of commerce and imperial defense. -- An`ti-im*pe"ri*al*ist, n. -- An`ti- im*pe`ri*al*is"tic (#), a.

Hence: Any continuous or ramified channel of communication; as, arteries of trade or commerce.

it, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness. The freedom and audacity necessary in the commerce of men. Tatler.

A red coloring matter derived from phenol; -- called also, in commerce, yellow coralin.

poration in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce. Bacon. Ure.

tius's bean (Bot.), a species of Strychnos. -- Navy bean, the common dried white bean of commerce; probably so called because an important article of food in the navy. -- Pea bean, a very small and highly esteemed variety of the edible white bean; -- so called from its size. -- Sacred bean. See under Sacred. -- Scr…

or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other. Who made our laws to bind us, not himself. Milton.

(Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol.

through; through the act or agency of; as, a city is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take by force.

Belonging to exchanges in commerce; of exchange. [R.]

e an exceedingly pungent, biting taste, and when ground form the red of Cayenne pepper of commerce.

ing, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce. [Also written carragheen, carageen.]

a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.

body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.

The science of the useful arts, esp. agriculture, manufactures, and commerce. [R.]

emon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce.

lation and lines of precise leveling in the interior. It now belongs to the Department of Commerce and Labor.