selkt, selket

Middle English forms of silk. selkoutht, selkowtht, a. and n. Middle English forms of selcouth. selll (sel), v.; pret. and pp. sold, ppr. selling. [ Dispitous Day, thyn be the pyne of helle!. What! profrestow thy light here for to selle ? Go selle it hem that smale seles grave, We wol the noght, us nedeth no day have. Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 1461. IMG:content-0562.png:[merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small] If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor. Mat. xix. 21. Jack, how agrees the devil and thee about thy soul, that thou soldest him on Good-Friday last, for a cup of Madeira and a cold capon's leg? Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. 2. 127. 4. To make a matter of bargain and sale; accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty or trust; take a bribe for; betray. Ne sule thu neuer so etheliche. his deorewurthe spuse that costnede him so deore. Ancren Riule, p. 290. You would have sold your king to slaughter. Shak., Hen. V., ii. 2. 170. Hence-5. To impose upon; cheat; deceive; disappoint. [Slang.] We could not but laugh quietly at the complete succe of the Rajah's scheme; we were, to use a vulgar phrase, "regularly sold. " W. H. Ru ell, Diary in India, xl. Sold notes. See bought note, under notel. - To sell a bargaint. See bargain. To sell one's life dearly, to cause great lo to those who take one's life; do great injury to the enemy before one is killed. To sell one up or out, to sell a debtor's goods to pay his creditors. - To sell out. (a) To dispose entirely of: as, to sell out one's holding in a particular stock: sometimes with a view of closing busine in a commodity or a place. ( b ) To betray by secret bargains: as, the leaders sold out their candidate for governor. [U. S. political slang.] - To sell the beart. See bear2, 5 ( α ). II. in trans. 1. To dispose of goods or property, usually for money. The mayster dyhzeres of peyntours in the Citee, that tweyze godmen and trewe be y-chose by commune a ent, and y-swore to a aye the chaff are of straunge chapmen that cometh in to the towne to selle , and to don trewleche the a ys to the sellere and to the byggere. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 359. Men ete and drank, shortly to tell, Ilkan with other, and solde and boght. Hampole , Pricke of Conscience, 1. 4849. I will buy with you, sell with you,. but I will not Shak., M. of V., i. 3. 36. eat with you. 2. To be in demand as an article of sale; find purchasers; be sold. A turpentine drops from the fruit of this sort [of fir], which they call mastic, and sells dear, being used in surgery for wounds. Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 120. Few writings sell which are not filled with great names. Add is on , Spectator, No. 567. To sell out. (a) Formerly, in the British army, to sell one's commi ion and retire from the service. (b) To dispose of all one's shares in a company, all of one's inerest in a busine , or all of one's stock as of a given commodity (c) In stock - broking, to dispose in open exchange of shares contracted to be sold, but not paid for at the time spec i sell fied for delivery, the original purchaser being required to make good the difference between the contract price and the price actually received. - To sell short. See short. sell i (sel), n. [ In a little note-book which at that time I carried about with me, the celebrated city of Angers is denominated a H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 96. sell.