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Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company.

The act or practice of buying goods beyond the means of payment; a glutting of the market.

ts, belonging to a person, a corporation, or an estate; as, the assets of a merchant or a trading association; -- opposed to liabilities.

A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean.

t of Conscience, a court established for the recovery of small debts, in London and other trading cities and districts. [Eng.] Blackstone. -- In conscience, In all conscience, in deference or obedience to conscience or reason; in reason; reasonably. "This is enough in conscience." Howell. "Half a dozen fools are, in a…

A slow unwieldy trading vessel. [Obs.] [Written also crayer, cray, and craie.] Shak.

A clumsy craft, having one mast with a long sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon. [Written also dhony, doney, and done.]

who, previous to the treaty of 1842, formed a guild which had the exclusive privilege of trading with foreigners.

To higgle in trading. [Obs.] Holland.

The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

A trading vessel; a merchantman. [Obs.] Shak.

A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.

A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century. Monkey boat. (Naut.) (a) A small boat used in docks. (b) A half-decked boat used on the River Thames. -- Monkey block (Naut.), a small single block strapped with a swivel. R. H. Dana, Jr. -- Monkey flower (Bot.), a plant of the genus Mimulus; -- so called from the appe…

g a commodity; the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything, however obtained; as, the proprietor of a patented article is given a monopoly of its sale for a limited time; chartered trading companies have sometimes had a monop…

Hence, mercantile business; trading. [Obs.] Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies. Evelyn.

A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.

The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.

way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid. Heavy trading ships . . . threading the Bosphorus. Mitford. They would not thread the gates. Shak.

periority; to contend; to use emulous effort, as in a race, contest, or competition. In a trading nation, the younger sons may be placed in such a way of life as . . . to vie with the best of their family. Addison. While Waterloo with Cannæ's carnage vies. Byron.