(v.) A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel;
resort.
(v.) Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.
(v.) Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration;
affair; dealing.
(v.) Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities
by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic;
barter.
(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.
(v.) Instruments of any occupation.
(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.
(v.) The trade winds.
(v.) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
(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.
(v. i.) To buy and sell or exchange property in a single
instance.
(v. i.) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; --
usually followed by with.
(v. t.) To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
imp. of Tread.
