trade fall ent (tradfaln)

Unsucce ful in busine ; bankrupt. [Rare.] Younger sons to younger brothers, revolted tapsters, and ostlers trade - fallen. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iv. 2. 32. [ tradeful (trād'fül), a. Balance of trade. See balance. Board of trade. (a) In the United States, an a ociation of busine men established in most large cities for the furtherance of commercial interests, the enactment of rules for the regulation of trade, and the consideration of legislation affecting banking, insurance, railroads, customs, etc.; a chamber of commerce. ( b ) [ caps.] In Great Britain, a committee of the Privy Council which has, to a large extent, the supervision of British commerce and industry. At in traffic; trafficking. its head are the President of the Board of Trade, who is nsually a member of the Cabinet, the parliamentary secretary (formerly vice-president), the permanent secretary, and six a istant secretaries at the head of six departments-the commercial, harbor, finance, railway, ma rine, and fisheries. Attached to the Board of Trade are also the bankruptcy and emigration departments, the Patent Office, etc. A committee for trade and the plan tations existed for a short time in the reign of Charles II. The council of trade was again constituted in the reign of William III., but discontinued in 1782. In 1786 the Board of Trade was organized, and its functions were subsequently greatly extended. - Coasting-trade. See coasting. Course of trade. See course1. - Fair trade, a proposed system of trade between Great Britain or British po e ions and other countries, as advocated by the British fair-traders and the Fair-Trade League since about 1886. The fair-traders disclaim the intention of returning to protection, and aim at establishing reciprocity, and at the imposition of retaliatory duties on imports from countries which tax British products. - Free trade. See free. - Jack of all trades. See Jack1. - Round trade, on the Gaboon river, a kind of barter in which the things exchanged comprise a large a ortment miscellaneous articles. Also called bundle -trade. To blow trade, to blow (in) one course; blow constantly in the same direc tion. See trade -wind. The wind blowing trade, without an inch of sayle we spooned before the sea. Hakluyt's Voyages , III. 849. Tricks of the trade. See trick1 . = Syn. 6 and 7. Pursuit , Vocation, etc. See occupation . II. a . Pertaining to or characteristic of trade, or of a particular trade: as, a trade practice; a trade ball or dinner; trade organizations.Trade dollar. See dollar.- Trade price, the price charged by the manufacturer or publisher to dealers in the same trade for articles that are to be sold again at an advance.- Trade sale, an auction sale by manufacturers, publishers, or others of goods to the trade. tradel (trad), v.; pret. and pp. traded, ppr. trad ing. [ His grizly Beard a sing'd confe ion made What fiery breath through his black lips did trade. J. Beaumont, Psyche, i. 17. 2. To engage in trade; engage in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, and merchandise, or anything else; barter; buy and sell; traffic; carry on commerce as a busine : with in before the thing bought and sold. This element of air which I profe to trade in . I. Walton , Complete Angler, p. 25. 3. To buy and sell or to exchange property in a specific instance: as, A traded with B for a horse or a number of sheep.-4. To engage in affairs generally; have dealings or transactions. How did you dare To trade and traffic with Macbeth In riddles and affairs of death? IMG:content-0695.png:[blocks in formation] Ye trade full Merchants, that with weary toyle Do seeke most pretious things to make your gain. Spenser, Sonnets, xv. Musing maid, to thee I come, Hating the tradeful city's hum. J. Warton, Ode to Solitude. trade-hall (trād ́hal), n. A large hall in a city or town for meetings of manufacturers, traders, etc.; also, a hall devoted to meetings of the incorporated trades of a town, city, or district. Its small size causes it [the town-hall at Bruges] to suffer considerably from its immediate proximity to the cloth hall and other trade - halls of the city. J. Fergu on, Hist. Arch., I. 603. A distinguishing trade-mark (trād'märk), n. mark or device adopted by a manufacturer and impre ed on his goods, labels, etc., to indicate the origin or manufacturer; in law , a particu- lar mark or symbol which is used by a person for the purpose of denoting that the article to which or to packages of which it is affixed is sold or manufactured by him or by his author- ity, or used as a name or sign for his place of busine to indicate that he carries on his bus i- ne at that particular place, and which by priority of adoption and more or le exclusive use, or by government sanction and registra- tion, is recognized and protect able as his prop- erty. In Great Britain, the United States, and other countries the registration and protection of trade-marks are provided for by statute. The earliest trade-marks ap- pear to have been those which were used in the manufac- ture of paper, and which are known as water - marks . Of these the most ancient known appears on a document bearing the date 1351 - that is, shortly after the invention of the art of making paper from linen rags. The found a- tion of the protection afforded by the law to the owners of trade-marks is in the injustice done to one whose trade has acquired favor with the public if competitors are al- lowed, by colorable imitation of methods first adopted recognizable, to induce intending purchasers to take and continuously used by him for making his products their goods instead of his. The same kind of protection is therefore given, within just limits, to style and color of package and label as to specific symbols. - Music trade- mark, the official mark of the United States Board of Music Trade. It consists of a star inclosing a numeral which indicates the retail price of the piece in dimes. - Trade-Marks Act, a British statute of 1862 (25 and 26 Vict., c. 88) to prevent the fraudulent marking of mer- chandise, the forging or altering of trade-marks, etc. trade master (trād'mas tėr), n . One who teaches others in some trade or mechanical art; a man who instructs boys in some kind of handicraft. In our prisons the schoolmaster and the trade master take the place of the executioner. Nineteenth Century, XXIV. 759. trade-name (trād'nām), n . A name invented or adopted as the specific name or designation of some article of commerce