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A dealer in the public stocks or funds; a stockjobber. [Eng.]

A blockhead. [Colloq. & Obs.] H. Taylor.

Underhand management; official corruption; as, municipal jobbery. Mayhew.

The nuthatch. [Prov. Eng.]

eculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.

One who cheats. All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers, subscribers, projectors, etc. Pope.

One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. [Cant, U.S.]

A huckster. Gladstone. Those hucksterers or money-jobbers. Swift.

Same as Jobbernowl.

To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.

A number of shares taken by a jobber.

One who engages in logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.] The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it. The. Nation.

The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.

othorax being often prolonged upward or forward in the form of a spine or crest. -- Tree jobber (Zoöl.), a woodpecker. [Obs.] -- Tree kangaroo. (Zoöl.) See Kangaroo. -- Tree lark (Zoöl.), the tree pipit. [Prov. Eng.] -- Tree lizard (Zoöl.), any one of a group of Old World arboreal lizards (Dendrosauria) comprising th…

rtaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price.

A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast. Sir. P. Sidney. The stockjobber thus from Change Alley goes down, And tips you, the freeman, a wink. Swift.