| • | A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort. |
| • | Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment. |
| • | Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing. |
| • | Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter. |
| • | The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician. |
| • | Instruments of any occupation. |
| • | A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade. |
| • | The trade winds. |
| • | Refuse or rubbish from a mine. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance. |
| • | To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with. |
| • | To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter. |
| • | imp. of Tread. |
