Word Meanings - MERCHANTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country. 2. The business of a merchant; merchandise. Walpole.

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• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• MERCHANTRY
  1. The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country. 2. The business of a merchant; merchandise. Walpole.
• MERCHANDISER
  A trader. Bunyan.
• COUNTRY CLUB
  A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
• MERCHANTLY
  Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant. Gauden.
• COUNTRYSIDE
  A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. W. Black. Blackmore.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• MERCHANDISE
  1. The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities. Spenser. 2. The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
• COUNTRY BANK
  A national bank not in a reserve city.
• 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,
• COUNTRYMAN
  1. An inhabitant or native of a region. Shak. 2. One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 2 Cor. xi. 26. 3. One who
• COUNTRYWOMAN
  A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant. Shak.
• COUNTRY-BASE
  See BASE
• MERCHANTABLE
  Fit for market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.
• MERCHANTMAN
  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.
• COUNTRY COUSIN
  A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.
• TAKEN
  p. p. of Take.
• UNMERCHANTABLE
  Not merchantable; not fit for market; being of a kind, quality, or quantity that is unsalable. McElrath.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• OUTTAKEN
  or prep. Excepted; save. Wyclif. Chaucer.
• UPCOUNTRY
  In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry.