marts

[mahrt]

Origin

noun

market; trading center; trade center.

a building, center, or exposition for the sale of goods by manufacturers and wholesalers to retail merchants.

Archaic. a fair.

Obsolete. bargain.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Middle Dutch mar(c)t market

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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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noun Scot. and North England.

a cow or ox fattened for slaughter.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Scots Gaelic; compare MIr mart ox or cow slaughtered for meat, carcass, hence a live ox or cow

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mart

"market," 1436, from M.Du. marct, from L. mercatus "trade" (see market).

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"We occasionally rested in the shade of a maple or a willow, and drew forth a melon for our refreshment, while we contemplated at our leisure the lapse of the river and of human life; and as that current, with its floating twigs and leaves, so did all things pass in review before us, while far away in cities and marts on this very stream, the old routine was proceeding still. There is, indeed, a tide in the affairs of men, as the poet says, and yet as things flow they circulate, and the ebb always balances the flow. All streams are but tributary to the ocean, which itself does not stream, and the shores are unchanged, but in longer periods than man can measure. Go where we will, we discover infinite change in particulars only, not in generals."

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