Mark"a*ble (?), a. Remarkable. [Obs.] Sandys.
Marked (märkt), a. Designated or distinguished by, or as by, a mark;
hence; noticeable; conspicuous; as, a marked card; a marked coin; a
marked instance. -- Mark"ed*ly (#), adv. J. S. Mill.
A marked man, a man who is noted by a community, or by a part of it,
as, for excellence or depravity; -- usually with an unfavorable
suggestion.
Mar*kee" (mär*k"), n. See Marquee.
Mark"er (?), n. One who or that which marks. Specifically: (a) One who
keeps account of a game played, as of billiards. (b) A counter used in
card playing and other games. (c) (Mil.) The soldier who forms the
pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment. (d)
An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by
creasing it.
Mar"ket (?), n. [Akin to D. markt, OHG. markt, merkt, G. markt; all
fr.L. mercatus trade, market place, fr. mercari, p. p. mercatus, to
trade, traffic, merx, mercis, ware, merchandise, prob. akin to merere
to deserve, gain, acquire: cf. F. marché. See Merit, and cf. Merchant,
Mart.] 1. A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for
the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by
private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in
the town every week.
He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares At wakes, and wassails,
meetings, markets, fairs.
Shak.
Three women and a goose make a market.
Old Saying.
2. A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building,
where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place
where provisions are sold.
There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool.
John v. 2.
3. An opportunity for selling anything; demand, as shown by price
offered or obtainable; a town, region, or country, where the demand
exists; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for
woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods.
There is a third thing to be considered: how a market can be
created for produce, or how production can be limited to the
capacities of the market.
J. S. Mill.
4. Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow
market.
5. The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price.
Hence: Value; worth.
What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to
sleep and feed ?
Shak.
6. (Eng. Law) The privelege granted to a town of having a public
market.
Market is often used adjectively, or in forming compounds of obvious
meaning; as, market basket, market day, market folk, market house,
marketman, market place, market price, market rate, market wagon,
market woman, and the like.
Market beater, a swaggering bully; a noisy braggart. [Obs.] Chaucer. --
Market bell, a bell rung to give notice that buying and selling in a
market may begin. [Eng.] Shak. -- Market cross, a cross set up where a
market is held. Shak. -- Market garden, a garden in which vegetables
are raised for market. -- Market gardening, the raising of vegetables
for market. -- Market place, an open square or place in a town where
markets or public sales are held. -- Market town, a town that has the
privilege of a stated public market.
Mar"ket (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Marketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Marketing.]
To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or
goods.
Mar"ket, v. t. To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell
in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most
of the farmes have marketed their crops.
Industrious merchants meet, and market there The world's collected
wealth.
Southey.
Mar"ket*a*ble (?), a. 1. Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such
as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayed provisions are not
marketable.