Chapter Trachelipod to Trade of T by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Tractitious
(Trac*ti"tious) a. [See Tractate.] Treating of; handling. [R.]

Tractive
(Tract"ive) a. Serving to draw; pulling; attracting; as, tractive power.

Tractor
(Tract"or) n. [NL., from L. trahere, tractum, to draw.]

1. That which draws, or is used for drawing.

2. pl. (Med.) Two small, pointed rods of metal, formerly used in the treatment called Perkinism.

Tractoration
(Trac`to*ra"tion) n. See Perkinism.

Tractory
(Tract"o*ry) n. [L. tractorius of drawing, fr. trahere, tractum, to draw.] (Geom.) A tractrix.

Tractrix
(Tract"rix) n. [NL. See Tractor.] (Geom.) A curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; — so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.

Trad
(Trad) obs. imp. of Tread. Chaucer.

Trade
(Trade) n. [Formerly, a path, OE. tred a footmark. See Tread, n. & v.]

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.

Trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills, or in money; but it is chiefly used to denote the barter or purchase and sale of goods, wares, and merchandise, either by wholesale or retail. Trade is either foreign or domestic. Foreign trade consists in the exportation and importation of goods, or the exchange of the commodities of different countries. Domestic, or home, trade is the exchange, or buying and selling, of goods within a country. Trade is also by the wholesale, that is, by the package or in large quantities, generally to be sold again, or it is by retail, or in small parcels. The carrying trade is the business of transporting commodities from one country to another, or between places in the same country, by land or water.

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