Word Meanings - SCORSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Barter; exchange; trade. And recompensed them with a better scorse. Spenser.

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• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• BARTER
  To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck. (more info) fr. Gr. to do, deal , use practices or tricks, or perh.
• TRADESFOLK
  People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• RECOMPENSER
  One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe.
• BETTERMOST
  Best. "The bettermost classes." Brougham.
• RECOMPENSEMENT
  Recompense; requital. Fabyan.
• EXCHANGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being exchangeable. The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Washington.
• TRADED
  Professional; practiced. Shak.
• TRADELESS
  Having no trade or traffic. Young.
• TRADES-UNIONIST; TRADE-UNIONIST
  A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.
• TRADER
  1. One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader. 2. A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.
• BETTERMENT
  An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural. Bouvier. (more info) 1. A making better; amendment; improvement. W. Montagu.
• TRADESCANTIA
  A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.
• BETTER
  1. Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy. 2. One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural. Their betters would hardly be
• BETTERNESS
  1. The quality of being better or superior; superiority. Sir P. Sidney. 2. The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard.
• TRADESWOMAN
  A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.
• RECOMPENSATION
  Used to denote a case where a set-off pleaded by the defendant is met by a set-off pleaded by the plaintiff. (more info) 1. Recompense.
• TRADESMAN
  1. One who trades; a shopkeeper. 2. A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands. Burrill.
• SCORSE
  Barter; exchange; trade. And recompensed them with a better scorse. Spenser.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• RECOMPENSE
  recompensare, fr.L. pref. re- re- + compensare to compensate. See 1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak. 2. To return an equivalent for;
• ABETTER; ABETTOR
  One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender. Note: The form abettor is the legal term and also in general use. Syn. -- Abettor, Accessory, Accomplice. These words denote different degrees of complicity in some deed or crime. An abettor
• BALUSTRADE
  A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.
• TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
  A central office in which the wires of telephones may be connected to permit conversation.
• TETRADECANE
  A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule.