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<h1>Market</h1> <Xpage=896>

<hw>Mar"ket</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Marketed</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Marketing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.</def>

<h1>Market</h1> <Xpage=896>

<hw>Mar"ket</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; <as>as, most of the farmes have <ex>marketed</ex> their crops</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Industrious merchants meet, and <b>market</b> there The world's collected wealth. <i>Southey.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Marketable</h1> <Xpage=896>

<hw>Mar"ket*a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; <as>as, dacaye<?/ provisions are not <ex>marketable</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Current in market; <as>as, <ex>marketable</ex> value</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Wanted by purchasers; salable; <as>as, furs are not <ex>marketable</ex> in that country</as>.</def>

<h1>Marketableness</h1> <Xpage=896>

<hw>Mar"ket*a*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Quality of being marketable.</def>

<h1>Marketer</h1> <Xpage=896>

<hw>Mar"ket*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.</def>

<h1>Marketing</h1> <Xpage=896>

<hw>Mar"ket*ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Articles in, or from, a market; supplies.</def>

<h1>Marketstead</h1> <Xpage=896>

<hw>Mar"ket*stead</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Market</ets> + <ets>stead</ets> a place.]</ety> <def>A market place.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Drayton.</i>

<h1>Markhoor</h1> <Xpage=896>

<hw>Mark"hoor`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Per. <ets>m\'ber-kh<?/r</ets> snake eater.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A large wild goat (<spn>Capra megaceros</spn>), having huge flattened spiral horns. It inhabits the mountains of Northern India and Cashmere.</def>

<h1>Marking</h1> <Xpage=896>

<hw>Mark"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of one who, or that which, marks; the mark or marks made; arrangement or disposition of marks or coloring; <as>as, the <ex>marking</ex> of a bird's plumage</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Marking ink</col>, <cd>indelible ink, because used in marking linen.</cd> -- <col>Marking nut</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>the nut of the <spn>Semecarpus Anacardium</spn>, an East Indian tree. The shell of the nut yields a blackish resinous juice used for marking cotton cloth, and an oil prepared from it is used for rheumatism.</cd></cs>

<h1>Markis</h1> <Xpage=896>

<hw>Mar"kis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A marquis.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Markisesse</h1> <Xpage=896>

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