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A trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, fruits, and various other commodities. Grocer's itch (Med.), a disease of the akin, caused by handling sugar and treacle.

The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; -- in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense. A deal box . . . to carry groceries in. Goldsmith. The shops at which the best families of the neighborhood bought grocery and millinery. Macaulay.

A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.

with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.

A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, atc.

A conical paper bag, used by grocers. [Obs.] Nares.

An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer. [Scot.]

Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general. People who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery. Macaulay.

for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [U.S.]

itch, an eczema of the hands attended with much itching, occurring among bricklayers. -- Grocer's itch, an itching eruption, being a variety of eczema, produced by the sugar mite (Tyrogluphus sacchari). -- Itch insect (Zoöl.), a small parasitic mite (Sarcoptes scabei) which burrows and breeds beneath the human skin,…

To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries.

to (some one) on account of something done or received; to be indebted to; as, to iwe the grocer for supplies, or a laborer for services.

A grocer; -- formerly so called because he sold pepper. [Obs.]

Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.