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Lapwing :: Lapwing (n.) A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the plover's eggs of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea..

Ripper :: Ripper (n.) One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns.

Nundinate :: Nundinate (a.) To buy and sell at fairs or markets.

Cross :: Cross (n.) A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London..

Ark :: Ark (n.) A large flatboat used on Western American rivers to transport produce to market.

Split :: Split (n.) the substitution of more than one share of a corporation's stock for one share. The market price of the stock usually drops in proportion to the increase in outstanding shares of stock. The split may be in any ratio, as a two-for-one split; a three-for-two split..

Well :: Well (v. i.) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water for the preservation of fish alive while they are transported to market..

Scalper :: Scalper (n.) A broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market..

Forum :: Forum (n.) A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people..

Logrolling :: Logrolling (n.) The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn.

Frock :: Frock (n.) A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their other clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock..

Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor..

Billingsgate :: Billingsgate (n.) A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language..

Stationer :: Stationer (a.) A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere..

Marketableness :: Marketableness (n.) Quality of being marketable.

Engross :: Engross (v. t.) To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power..

Finishing :: Finishing (a.) Tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use.

Bazar :: Bazar (n.) In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale..

Teleocephial :: Teleocephial (n. pl.) An extensive order of bony fishes including most of the common market species, as bass, salmon, cod, perch, etc..

Nundinary :: Nundinary (a.) Of or pertaining to a fair, or to a market day..

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