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- Commerce - n. - The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
- Commerce - n. - Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
- Commerce - n. - Sexual intercourse.
- Commerce - n. - A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
- Commerce - v. i. - To carry on trade; to traffic.
- Commerce - v. i. - To hold intercourse; to commune.
- Commerced - imp. & p. p. - of Commerce
- Mercury - n. - A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.
- Lemon - n. - An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species C. Limonum or C. Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet.
- Spelter - n. - Zinc; -- especially so called in commerce and arts.
- Centralization - n. - The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.
- Whore - n. - A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.
- Nursery - n. - That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.
- Trade - v. i. - To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business.
- Incest - n. - The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
- Know - v. i. - To have sexual commerce with.
- Maritime - a. - Bordering on, or situated near, the ocean; connected with the sea by site, interest, or power; having shipping and commerce or a navy; as, maritime states.
- Zollverein - n. - Literally, a customs union; specifically, applied to the several customs unions successively formed under the leadership of Prussia among certain German states for establishing liberty of commerce among themselves and common tariff on imports, exports, and transit.
- Moringa - n. - A genus of trees of Southern India and Northern Africa. One species (Moringa pterygosperma) is the horse-radish tree, and its seeds, as well as those of M. aptera, are known in commerce as ben or ben nuts, and yield the oil called oil of ben.
- Sherry - n. - A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.
- Divert - v. t. - To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course.
- Navigate - v. i. - To joirney by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail.
- Stagnate - v. t. - To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates.
- Embargo - n. - An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.
- plastic - n. - a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic are used to produce articles of commerce (after 1900). [MW10 gives origin of word as 1905]
- Commercial - a. - Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations.
- Consulage - n. - A duty or tax paid by merchants for the protection of their commerce by means of a consul in a foreign place.
- Lecher - n. - A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with women.
- Embargo - v. t. - To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.
- Income - n. - That gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property; as, a large income.
- Cocoon - n. - An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared.
- Sulphinide - n. - A white or yellowish crystalline substance, C6H4.(SO2.CO).NH, produced artificially by the oxidation of a sulphamic derivative of toluene. It is the sweetest substance known, having over two hundred times the sweetening power of sugar, and is known in commerce under the name of saccharine. It has acid properties and forms salts (which are inaccurately called saccharinates).