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iling small wares; a hawker. [Written also pedlar and pedler.] "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." Hakluyt.

The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler.

Authoritative; peremptory. [R.] The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed. Mrs. Browning.

A peddler; a hawker.

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer. [Eng.]

A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat. [Slang, Eng.] Halliwell.

One who fakes something, as a thief, a peddler of petty things, a workman who dresses things up, etc. [Slang]

One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.

A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker. Swift.

r preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler. The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made. Blackstone.

One who carries about a small load; a peddler. See 2d Jag. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A mounted peddler of fish; -- called also jouster. [Obs.] Carew.

se 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.

are produced as flowers of style. Swift. He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries. Bancroft.

One who bears a pack; a peddler.

One who patters, or talks glibly; specifically, a street peddler. [Cant, Eng.]

Hawking; acting as a peddler.

See Peddler.

gressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding student; a man of plodding habits. --Plod"ding*ly, adv.

report; as, to retail slander. "To whom I will retail my conquest won." Shak. He is wit's peddler, and retails his wares At wakes and wassails. Shak.