Word Meanings - MERCHANTMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A merchant. Matt. xiii. 45. 2. A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.

Related words: (words related to MERCHANTMAN)

• TRADE-MARK
  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.
• TRADUCENT
  Slanderous. Entick.
• TRADITIONER; TRADITIONIST
  One who adheres to tradition.
• TRADUCIAN
  A believer in traducianism.
• TRADUCEMENT
  The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak.
• TRADESFOLK
  People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift.
• TRADUCIBLE
  1. Capable of being derived or propagated. Sir M. Hale. 2. Capable of being traduced or calumniated.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• TRADITIONALIST
  An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.
• MERCHANTRY
  1. The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country. 2. The business of a merchant; merchandise. Walpole.
• TRADING
  1. Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company. 2. Frequented by traders. "They on the trading flood." Milton. 3. Venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician.
• TRADITIONALLY
  In a traditional manner.
• TRADITION
  1. The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery. "A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery." Blackstone. 2. The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father
• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• TRADED
  Professional; practiced. Shak.
• TRADUCE
  as a spectacle, disgrace, transfer, derive; trans across, over + ducere to lead: cf. F. traduire to transfer, translate, arraign, fr. 1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. Glanvill. 2.
• MERCHANTLY
  Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant. Gauden.
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• TRADELESS
  Having no trade or traffic. Young.
• DISTINGUISHABLE
  1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• TETRADYMITE
  A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Calles also telluric bismuth.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• CONTRADISTINCT
  Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin.
• TETRADACTYLOUS
  Having, or characterized by, four digits to the foot or hand.
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.
• CONTRADICTIVE
  Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict"ive*ly, adv..
• STRADDLE
  1. To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart. 2. To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
• EXTRADITABLE
  1. Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice. 2. Making liable to extradition; as, extraditable offenses.
• STRADDLING
  Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3. Knight.
• TETRADYNAMIAN
  A plant of the order Tetradynamia.