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Opportunity of selling; demand; market. They shall have ready sale for them. Spenser.

See Salable, Salably, etc.

See Salep.

Roughness or ruggedness. [Obs.] Feltham.

Rough; rugged. [Obs.]

The dried tubers of various species of Orchis, and Eulophia. It is used to make a nutritious beverage by treating the powdered preparation with hot water. U. S. Disp.

Aërated salt; a white crystalline substance having an alkaline taste and reaction, consisting of sodium bicarbonate (see under Sodium.) It is lagerly used in cooking, with sour milk (lactic acid) or cream of tartar as a substitute for yeast. It is also an ingridient of most baking powders, and is used in the preparatio…

One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

Work or things made for sale; hence, work done carelessly or slightingly. Shak.

Same as Dorsal, n.

sociated with the glory of the Jewish nation, and the life and death of Jesus Christ. Jerusalem artichoke Etym: [Perh. a corrupt. of It. girasole i.e., sunflower, or turnsole. See Gyre, Solar.] (Bot.) (a) An American plant, a perennial species of sunflower (Helianthus tuberosus), whose tubers are sometimes used as food…

Public or open sale; auction. [Obs.] Holland.

A sale at second hand, or at retail; also, a second sale. Bacon.

One of the bones or cartilages of the tarsus; esp., one of the series articulating with the metatarsals.

A female vassal. [R.] Spenser.

A sale made in washing. See Washing, n., 3, above.

Same as Wash sale.

Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail. By wholesale, in the mass; in large quantities; without distinction or discrimination. Some, from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale. I. Watts.

te, as time or distance. That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Dan. ix. 2. He had accomplished half a league or more. Prescott.