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Trade
King James Dictionary
or TRADE, n. L. tracto, to handle, use, treat.
1. The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter or the business of buying and selling for money commerce traffic barter. Trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills or money. It is however chiefly used to denote the barter or purchase and sale of goods, wares and merchandise, either by wholesale or retail. Trade is either foreign, or domestic or inland. Foreign trade consists in the exportation and importation of goods, or the exchange of the commodities of different countries. Domestic or home trade is the exchange or buying and selling of goods within a country. Trade is also by the wholesale, that is, by the package or in large quantities, or it is by retail, or in small parcels.
The carrying trade is that of transporting commodities from one country to another by water.
2. The business which a person has learned and which he carries on for procuring subsistence or for profit occupation particularly, mechanical employment distinguished from the liberal arts and learned professions, and from agriculture. Thus we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter or mason. But we never say, the trade of a farmer or of a lawyer or physician.
3. Business pursued occupation in contempt as, piracy is their trade.
Hunting their sport, and plund'ring was their trade.
4. Instruments of any occupation.
The shepherd bears
His house and household goods, his trade of war.
5. Employment not manual habitual exercise.
6. Custom habit standing practice.
Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade.
7. Men engaged in the same occupation. Thus booksellers speak of the customs of the trade.
TRADE, To barter, or to buy and sell to deal in the exchange, purchase or sale of goods, wares and merchandise, or any thing else to traffic to carry on commerce as a business. Thus American merchants trade with the English at London and at Liverpool they trade with the French at Havre and Bordeaux, and they trade with Canada. The country shopkeepers trade with London merchants. Our banks are permitted to trade in bills of exchange.
1. To buy and sell or exchange property, in a single instance. Thus we say, man treats with another for his farm, but cannot trade with him. A traded with B for a horse or a number of sheep.
2. To act merely for money.
How did you dare
To trade and traffic with Macbeth?
3. To have a trade wind.
They on the trading flood ply tow'rd the pole. Unusual.
TRADE, To sell or exchange in commerce.
They traded the persons of men. Ezekiel 27 .
This, I apprehend, must be a mistake at least it is not to be vindicated as a legitimate use of the verb.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Trade'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/t/trade.html.
