trade

trade is a Noun

Definition:

[1] A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort. [Obs.] A postern with a blind wicket there was, A common trade to pass through Priam`s house. Surrey. Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade. Spenser. Or, I`ll be buried in the king`s highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects` feet May hourly trample on their sovereign`s head. Shak.

[2] Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment. [Obs.] "The right trade of religion." Udall. There those five sisters had continual trade. Spenser. Long did I love this lady, Long was my travel, long my trade to win her. Massinger. Thy sin`s not accidental but a trade. Shak.

[3] Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing. [Obs.] Have you any further trade with us Shak.

[4] Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.

[5] The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician. Accursed usury was all his trade. Spenser. The homely, slighted, shepherd`s trade. Milton. I will instruct thee in my trade. Shak.

[6] Instruments of any occupation. [Obs.] The house and household goods, his trade of war. Dryden.

[7] A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade.

[8] The trade winds.

[9] Refuse or rubbish from a mine. [Prov. Eng.]