Markee
(Mar*kee") n. See Marquee.
Marker
(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.
Market
(Mar"ket) n. [Akin to D. markt, OHG. markat, merkat, 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.
