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One who sells. Chaucer.

One who sells books.

One who sells distilled liquors by the dram or glass.

One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail.

One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. See 4th Slop, 3.

A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.

The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.

A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster. Shak.

e of judicial proceedings. Bouvier. Wharton. -- Bill of parcels, an account given by the seller to the buyer of the several articles purchased, with the price of each. -- Bill of particulars (Law), a detailed statement of the items of a plaintiff's demand in an action, or of the defendant's set-off. -- Bill of right…

A bookseller's shop. [Eng.]

A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.

ak. (b) To purchase the share or shares of in a stock, fund, or partnership, by which the seller is separated from the company, and the purchaser takes his place; as, A buys out B. (c) To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good will of a business. -- To buy in, to purchase stock in any fund or partnership. --…

One who deals in carpets; a buyer and seller of carpets.

A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay.

One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. [Obs.] The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller.

A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. [Slang, Eng.]

ost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value. Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. Locke.

A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.

A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.

A seller of fish. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Chowder beer, a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing molasses with the decoction.