a track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.-course; custom; practice; occupation; employment.-business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.-specifically: the act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.-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.-instruments of any occupation.-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.-the trade winds.-refuse or rubbish from a mine.-to barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business.-to buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.-to have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.-to sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.-imp. of tread.