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cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week. He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs. Shak. Three women and a goose make a market. Old Saying.

Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable.

Quality of being marketable.

One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.

The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market.

A market place. [Obs.] Drayton.

A long, closely fitting cloak.

An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.

To raise the value of; to increase the market price of; -- opposed to depreciate. [U.S.] Lest a sudden peace should appreciate the money. Ramsay.

nge); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets.

A large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transport produce to market.

ed, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle. So [they] came to the market place, and there he arranged his men in the streets. Berners. [They] were beginning to arrange their hampers. Boswell. A mechanism previously arranged. Paley.

the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures.

English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets. On an average, taking the mean of unequal numbers or quantities.

A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee. Bag and baggage, all that belongs to one. -- To give one the bag, to disappoint him. [Obs.] Bunyan.

In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.

person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.

A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.

t deer from her. Sir P. Sidney. And so even now hath he divers blanchers belonging to the market, to let and stop the light of the gospel. Latimer.

To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.