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; also, passage; travel; resort. [Obs.] A postern with a blind wicket there was, A common trade to pass through Priam's house. Surrey. Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade. Spenser. Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet May hourly trample on their sovereign's…

The name by which an article is called among traders, etc.; as, tin spirits is a common trade name in the dyeing industry for various solutions of tin salts.

A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.

Professional; practiced. [Obs.] Shak.

Full of trade; busy in traffic; commercial. Spenser.

Having no trade or traffic. Young.

One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader.

An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.

A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.

A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.

People employed in trade; tradesmen. [R.] Swift.

One who trades; a shopkeeper.

People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.

A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.

A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind.

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

throne; a platform; a dais. He [the teacher] himself should have his desk on a mounted estrade or platform. J. G. Fitch.

To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.

A feme sole trader.

A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule.