Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRADE, v.i.

1. To barter, or to buy and sell; to deal in the exchange, purchase or sale of goods, wares and merchandise, or any thing else; to traffick; to carry on commerce as a business. Thus American merchants trade with the English at London and at Liverpool; they trade with the French at Havre and Bordeaux, and they trade with Canada. The country shopkeepers trade with London merchants. Our banks are permitted to trade in bills of exchange.
2. To buy and sell or exchange property, in a single instance. Thus we say, a man treats with another for his farm, but can not trade with him. A. traded with B. for a horse or a number of sheep.
3. To act merely for money. How did you dare / To trade and traffick with Macbeth? Shak.
4. To have a trade wind. They on the trading flood ply tow'rd the pole. [Unusual.] Milton.