trading (trading)

[Ppr. of tradel, v.] 1t. Moving in a steady course or current. [Rare.] They on the trading flood. Ply, stemming nightly toward the pole. Milton , P. L., ii. 640. 2. Carrying on commerce; engaged in trade: as, a trading company.-3. Given to corrupt bargains; venal. What in him was only a sophistical self-deception, or a mere illusion of dangerous self-love, might have been, by the common herd of trading politicians, used as the cover for every low, and despicable, and unprincipled artifice. Brougham, Hist. Sketches, Canning. tradiometer (trā-di-om'e-ter), n. A species of dynamometer for determining the draft of vehicles, plows, mowing-machines, etc. In one form the draft is applied to a kind of spring scale interposed between the draft-animal or propelling machine 6417 and the vehicle, plow, etc., the extension of the spring denoting the draft. Other more refined forms have been invented. One of these, by a tracing-point moved according to the pull, marks a curve on a disk, by which a variable draft is indicated.