You 'll see a draggled damsel From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
Gay.
3. The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with
reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.
Traffic return, a periodical statement of the receipts for goods and
passengers, as on a railway line. — Traffic taker, a computer of the
returns of traffic on a railway, steamboat line, etc.
Traf"fic*a*ble (?), a. Capable of being disposed of in traffic;
marketable. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
Traf"fick*er (?), n. One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a
trader; a merchant.
Traf"fic*less, a. Destitute of traffic, or trade.
Trag"a*canth (?), n. [L. tragacanthum tragacanth, tragacantha the plant
producing tragacanth, Gr. &?; &?; a he-goat + &?; a thorn: cf. F.
tragacanthe.] A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub
(Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus.
It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is
nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass,
which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts.
Called also gum tragacanth.