Word Meanings - HABERDASHERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also , trifles. Burke.

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• WARES
  See WARE
• GOODSHIP
  Favor; grace. Gower.
• HABERDASHERY
  The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also , trifles. Burke.
• GOODS
  See 3
• HABERDASHER
  trifles, perh. through French. It is possibly akin to E. haversack, and to Icel. taska trunk, chest, pocket, G. tasche pocket, and the 1. A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread; also, a hatter. The haberdasher heapeth wealth
• BURKE
  1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection. 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary
• DRY GOODS
  A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
• DELAWARES
  A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory.
• UNWARES
  Unawares; unexpectedly; -- sometimes preceded by at. Holinshed.
• CONSUMER'S GOODS
  Economic goods that directly satisfy human wants or desires, such as food, clothes, pictures, etc.; -- called also consumption goods, or goods of the first order, and opposed to producer's goods.
• PRODUCER'S GOODS
  Goods that satisfy wants only indirectly as factors in the production of other goods, such as tools and raw material; -- called also instrumental goods, auxiliary goods, intermediate goods, or goods of the second and higher orders, and disting.
• DRESS GOODS
  A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.
• UNAWARES
  , Without design or preparation; suddenly; without premeditation, unexpectedly. "Mercies lighting unawares." J. H. Newman. Lest unawares we lose This our high place, our sanctuary, our hill. Milton. At unaware, or At unawares, unexpectedly;
• STEELBOW GOODS
  Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord.