·- imp. of Tread.
II. Trade ·v The trade winds.
III. Trade ·v Instruments of any occupation.
IV. Trade ·v Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
V. Trade ·v Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.
VI. Trade ·vi To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
VII. Trade ·v A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
VIII. Trade ·vt To sell or exchange in commerce; to Barter.
IX. Trade ·v Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.
X. Trade ·vi To have dealings; to be concerned or associated;
— usually followed by with.
XI. Trade ·v Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.
XII. Trade ·v 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.
XIII. Trade ·vi 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.
XIV. Trade ·v 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.