Word Meanings - MERCHANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

LL. mercatans, -antis, p. pr. of mercatare to negotiate, L. mercari to traffic, fr. merx, mercis, wares. See Market, Merit, and cf. 1. One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader. Others,

Additional info about word: MERCHANT

LL. mercatans, -antis, p. pr. of mercatare to negotiate, L. mercari to traffic, fr. merx, mercis, wares. See Market, Merit, and cf. 1. One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader. Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad. Shak. 2. A trading vessel; a merchantman. Shak. 3. One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper.

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• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• TRAFFICLESS
  Destitute of traffic, or trade.
• ANTISCORBUTICAL
  Antiscorbutic.
• ANTISEPSIS
  Prevention of sepsis by excluding or destroying microorganisms.
• MERIT
  deserve, merit; prob. originally, to get a share; akin to Gr. Market, 1. The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert. Here may men see how sin hath his merit. Chaucer. Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought For things that
• TRAFFIC MILE
  Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's transportation for a given period; -- a term and practice of restricted or erroneous usage. Traffic mile is a term designed to furnish an excuse
• ANTISTRUMATIC
  Antistrumous. -- n.
• MARKETER
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• ANTISCRIPTURAL
  Opposed to, or not in accordance with, the Holy Scriptures.
• MARKETSTEAD
  A market place. Drayton.
• SCALEBOARD
  A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.
• ANTISOLAR
  Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180º distant from the sun.
• FOREIGNER
  A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham.
• ANTISTROPHIC
  Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.
• FOREIGNNESS
  The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.
• MERITHAL; MERITHALLUS
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• ANTISIALAGOGUE
  Checking the flow of saliva.
• TRAFFICABLE
  Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable. Bp. Hall.
• MERITORY
  Meritorious.
• ANTISEPTIC
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• TARANTISM
  A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protraced dancing to appropriate music.
• GUNTER'S SCALE
  A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales
• TEMERITY
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• EMERITUS
  Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church. (more info) emerere, emereri, to obtain by service, serve out one's
• PANTISOCRATIC
  Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.
• ENLARGEMENT
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• NEWMARKET
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• DILETTANTISM
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• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.