markee (marke)

See marquee. marker (märker), n. [ 2. A counter used in card-playing.-3. One who marks or notices; a close observer; hence, rarely, a marksman. The best marker may shoot a bow's length beside. Scott , Monastery, xviii. 4. In agri., some implement used for tracing lines on the ground, as the position to be occupied by a row of plants or hills, or the like. It may be, for instance, a marking-plow, a form of three tined harrow, or a removable attachment to a planter or plow. 5. In a sewing-machine, an attachment for making upon the cloth, as it pa es the needle, a slight crease that may serve as a guide for IMG:content-0246.png:[blocks in formation] 4. A place of purchase and sale in general; a city, country, region, or locality where anything is or may be bought or sold: as, the home or foreign market (the country in which goods are produced, or that to which they are transported or from which they are brought); the American or British market; the London market. There is a third thing to be considered - how a market can be obtained for produce, or how production can be limited to the capacities of the market . J. S. Mill . 5. Traffic; trade; purchase or sale, or rate of purchase and sale; demand; hence, price; cost; worth; valuation: as, to make mo market; a ready market; a dull market; the market is low; there is no market for such goods. Second Pro. I prithee look what market she hath made. First Pro. Imprimis, sir, a good fat loin of mutton. Middle ton, Chaste Maid, ii. 2. Strange! how the frequent interjected dash Quickens a market , and helps off the trash. Cowper, Charity, 1. 522. The market to-day has been more active than for a considerable time. Manchester Guardian , Dec. 16, 1880. 6. In Eng.law: (a) The franchise or liberty granted to or enjoyed by a municipality or other body to establish a place, usually in an open space, for the meeting of people to buy and sell under prescribed conditions. (b) The a emblage of buyers and sellers on the day and within the hours appointed. The importance of the distinction between a market and any other mart arose from (1) the nece ity of public authority for making such use of a street or place, (2) the value of an exclusive franchise of this kind, and (3) the rule of English law that a buyer in open market gets good title, though the seller may not have had good title. - Clerk of the market. See clerk. Court of the clerk of the market. See court. - Mar ket overt, in Eng. law, open market; a place where the public are invited to send and sell, and to come and buy. The peculiar feature of trade in market overt is that the buyer may get good title though the seller has not. Market price, the price a commodity will bring when sold in open market; price current. The market price of every particular commodity is regulated by the proportion which is actually brought to market and the demand of those who are willing to pay the natural price of the commodity, or the whole value of the rent, labour, and profit which must be paid in order to bring it thither. Adam Smith , Wealth of Nations. Market value, value established or shown by sales, public or private, in the ordinary course of busine . See market price. To bull, corner, forestall, glut, hold the market. See the verbs. market (märket), v. [ II. trans . To carry to or sell in a market; make market or sale for; vend; sell: as, to market meat or vegetables; to market a crop. And rich bazaars, whither from all the world Industrious merchants meet, and market there The world's collected wealth. Southey , Thalaba, iv. [ mar- folding a tuck, or for another line of stitching; marketability (märket-a-bil'i-ti), n. a tuck-creaser.-6. A pen or stylus used for marking or recording. markest, n. An obsolete spelling of marquis . market (märket), n. [ME. market , late AS. market = OFries. merked , merkad , market = D. markt = MLG. market, merkt = OHG. merkāt, marchāt , MHG. market , markt , G. markt = Icel. markadhr = Sw. marknad = Dan. mar- ked = OF. * market , markiet , marchet , F. mar- ché = Pr. mercat = Sp. Pg. mercado = It. mer- cato , market, mercat us , traffic, trade, a mar- ket, mercari , pp. mercat us , trade: see merc an- tile, merchant. Hence mart1 . Cf. marchet , mer- chet, merchet a.] 1. An occasion on which goods are publicly exposed for sale and buyers as- semble to purchase; the meeting together of people for selling selling and buying at private sal as distinguished dist in gui she from an auction, where the sale is public. " Market is over for us to-day," said Molly Corney, in dis- appointed surprise. "We must make the best on 't, and sell to th' huxters." Mrs. Gaskell , Sylvia's Lovers, ii. And he answered, "What's the use Of this bragging up and down, When three women and one goose Make a market in your town?" Long fellow , Wayside Inn, Saga of King Olaf, ix. 2. A public place or building where goods are exposed for sale; a market-place or market ketable: see -bility.] Capability of being marketed or sold; readine of disposal; quick sale. Our government owes its life to the credit of its bonds. Their marketability alone furnished the means for suppre ing the great rebellion. N. A. Rev. , CXXXIX. 571. marketable (märket-a-bl), a. [ market + -able.] 1. That may be marketed or sold; salable; fit for the market. IMG:content-0247.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0248.jpg:[graphic] One of them Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable . Shak ., Tempest, v. 1. 266. 2. Current in the market. The marketable values of any quantities of two commodities are equal when they will exchange one for another. Locke . Marketable title, in the law of conveyancing , such a title as the court will compel a purchaser to accept, upon a contract to purchase which does not exempt the vendor from the full obligation of giving a clean and sufficient title: often used in contradistinction to good holding title , by which is meant a title which may without imprudence be presumed sufficient, but may yet be subject to a doubt affecting the marketablene of the property.