mercer ship (mersership)

[ mercer ship, and go to be a musqueteer. Howell, Letters, ii. 62. mercery (mer'sèr-i), n.; pl. merceries (-iz). [ Sp. mercería = Pg. It. mercer i a ), Berners, tr. of Froi art's Chron., I. cccciii. Half the shop was appropriated to grocery; the other half to drapery, and a little mercery. Mrs. Gaskell , Sylvia's Lovers, iii. Serious-faced folk who buy their merceries economically and seldom. Fortnightly Rev. , N. S., XXXIII. 75. 2. The trade of a mercer. The mercery is gone from out of Lombard-street and Cheap side into Paternoster-row and Fleet-street. Graunt, Bills of Mortality. 3. A place where mercers' wares are sold. merchandise (mèr'chan-diz), n. [Also mer chandize; modities in general; the staple of a mercantile busine ; commodities, goods, or wares bought and sold for gain. Real property, ships, money, stocks, and bonds are not merchandise, nor are notes or other mere representatives or measures of actual commodities or values. [Now never used in the plural.] Thou shalt not sell her at all for money; thou shalt not make merchandise of her. Deut. xxi. 14. Men comen azen be Damasce, that is a fulle fayre Cytee, and fulle noble, and fulle of alle Merchandises. Mandeville, Travels, p. 122. As many alnagers to alner and measure al kinds of mar chandises which they shal buy or sel by the yard. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 210. 21. Purchase and sale; trade; bargain; traffic; dealing, or advantage from dealing. I wolde make a marchaundyse Youre myscheffe to marre. York Plays , p. 228. IMG:content-0486.png:[blocks in formation] If he pay thee to the utmost farthing, thou hast forgiven nothing; it is merchandise , and not forgivene , to restore him that does as much as you can require. Jer. Taylor. Goods, wares, and merchandise. See good, n. = Syn. 1. Goods, Commodities, etc. See property.