Definition of merchant

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Merchant (n.) A trading vessel; a merchantman.

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Commissionnaire :: Commissionnaire (n.) An agent or factor; a commission merchant.
Copeman :: Copeman (v. i.) A chapman; a dealer; a merchant.
Merchant :: Merchant (v. i.) To be a merchant; to trade.
Countourhouse :: Countourhouse (n.) A merchant's office; a countinghouse.
Compensate :: Compensate (v. t.) To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses..
Unmerchantable :: Unmerchantable (a.) Not merchantable; not fit for market; being of a kind, quality, or quantity that is unsalable..
Scavage :: Scavage (n.) A toll or duty formerly exacted of merchant strangers by mayors, sheriffs, etc., for goods shown or offered for sale within their precincts..
Forwarder :: Forwarder (n.) One who sends forward anything; (Com.) one who transmits goods; a forwarding merchant.
Merchantmen :: Merchantmen (pl. ) of Merchantma.
Hansard :: Hansard (n.) A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d Hanse.
Navy :: Navy (n.) A fleet of ships; an assemblage of merchantmen, or so many as sail in company..
Adventurer :: Adventurer (n.) One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises..
Master :: Master (n.) The commander of a merchant vessel; -- usually called captain. Also, a commissioned officer in the navy ranking next above ensign and below lieutenant; formerly, an officer on a man-of-war who had immediate charge, under the commander, of sailing the vessel..
Drogher :: Drogher (n.) A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher..
Insure :: Insure (v. t.) Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured..
Chapman :: Chapman (n.) One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller.
Solvent :: Solvent (a.) Able or sufficient to pay all just debts; as, a solvent merchant; the estate is solvent..
Strong :: Strong (superl.) Having great wealth, means, or resources; as, a strong house, or company of merchants..
Merchantly :: Merchantly (a.) Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant.
Solvability :: Solvability (n.) The condition of being solvent; ability to pay all just debts; solvency; as, the solvability of a merchant..
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