trade wind

Meteor . ( pl .): Certain ocean winds which, blowing constantly in one direction or very nearly so, can be calculated on beforehand by the mariner, and are therefore beneficial to trade. They exist on all open oceans to a distance of about 30° north and south of the equator, blowing from about the northeast in the northern, and from the southeast in ment, which exercises a supervision over light IMG:content-1296.png:[ocr errors] relative the tropics, but especially above the land. If the globe consisted solely of land, or solely of water, and had no rotation, the cold currents would travel directly from the north and south poles to the equator; but the rotation of the earth deflects them from their course. The atmosphere lags behind the moving planet, especially at the equator, where the rotation is about a you sand miles an hour. Neither the direction nor the area of the trade winds remains fixed. Since they supply the place of rarefied air, which is ascending, they must follow the movement of the sun, blowing to the point of greatest rarefaction, as a cold current coming through a keyhole goes to the fire. Hence, the area of the trade-winds extends from two to four the occurrence of any accident must be sent to the Shakesp.; Richard II., iii. 3. *5. A particular course of action or effort; effort into the cause of the accident. This department in a particular direction. "Long did I love this lady: Long my travail, long my trade to win her." Mas singer. *6. Custom; habit; practice of long standing. "Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade ." Shakesp.: Measure for Measure, iii. 1. *7. Busine of any kind. "Have you any further trade with us?" Shakesp.: Hamlet, iii. 2. 8. The busine which a person has learned, and which he carries on for subsistence or profit; occupa tion; particularly employment, whether manual or mercantile, as distinguished from the liberal arts or the learned profe ions and agriculture; a hand i. craft. Thus we say the trade of a butcher or baker, but the profe ion of a lawyer or doctor. "What trade are you of?" Shakesp.: Measure for Measure , ii. 1. 9. The act, occupation, or busine of exchanging commodities for other commodities or for money; the busine of buying and selling; dealing by way of sale or exchange; commerce; traffic. Trade, in the commercial sense of the term, includes all those departments of busine which relate to the production and exchange of commodities embodied in some material or corporeal product; and excludes those profe ions whose services result in the production of incorporeal wealth. It is chiefly used to denote the barter or purchase and sale of goods, wares, and merchandise, either by wholesale or retail. Trade is either domestic or foreign. Domestic trade, also called Home trade, is the exchange or buying and selling of commodities within a country; foreign trade consists in the exportation and importation of commodities to or from foreign countries. Wholesale trade is the dealing by the package or in large quantities; retail, in small parcels. The carrying trade is that of transporting goods from one place to another by sea, . "Here is no trade of merchandise vsed, for that the people haue no vse of money." -Hackluyt: Voyages, i. 327. 10. The amount of busine done in any particular place or country, or in any particular branch. 11. Persons engaged in a particular occupation or busine ; as, Publishers and booksellers speak of the customs of the trade . IMG:content-1297.png:[blocks in formation] patents, designs, and trade-marks, copyright, art unions, industrial exhibitions, and the Explosive Acts (1875). (4) The Financial Department, which while the northeast trade-wind approaches an easterly direction more than at other times. The region of calms also changes its position. As the opposite hemisphere from that in which the sun is at the time. The trade-winds were not known till Columbus' first voyage. They are most marked on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, where they occur between 9° and 30° north, and between 4° and 22° south, in the former, and between 9° and 26° north, and between 4 and 23° south in the latter ocean, but become modified in the vicinity of land, so as to lose their distinctive character. In the Indian Ocean, and in southeastern Asia they become altered into monsoons. [MONSOON.] has the care of the library of the Board. 3. Fair Trade : An expre ion used by certain persons, who, profe ing to be free traders, would still tax goods imported from any country which refuses to accept the principles of free trade. Free traders consider this view as protectionist. They hold that if they can import goods cheaper from a protectionist country than elsewhere, they should be free to reap that advantage even if they cannot export their own wn goods to that country free of duty. 4. Free Trade : [FREE-TRADE]. dealers in or retailers of articles to be sold again. trade-allowance, subst . A discount allowed to trade-dollar, s. A silver dollar containing 378 troy grains of silver and 42 troy grains of alloy. Dollars of this description, i ued under act of Congre of February 12, 1873, were legal tender to amount of $5. Those i ued under act of July 22, 1876, po e ed no legal tender power. The trade dollars were intended for trade with countries doing busine on a silver basis; hence the name. trade-mark, s . An arbitrary symbol affixed by a manufacturer or merchant to particular goods or cla es of goods. In all civilized communities trade-marks are protected by law, and nearly all nations have treaties or conventions securing reciprocity of protection. No proceedings can be taken to prevent the infringement of a trade-mark, unle such trade-mark has been registered in accordance with the provisions of law. In this country application to register a trade-mark or label is boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; trades-people, s. pl. People engaged in various trades.