commodity (sense ‘wares, merchandise’ is freq.)
1.
convenience Mer.V. III. iii. 27,
Wint. III. ii. 94*.
2.
expediency John II. i. 597*
“break faith upon ”
3.
advantage, profit
2H4 I. ii. 282
“I will turn diseases to
commodity,”
Lr. IV. i. 21.
4.
quantity of wares,
parcel, consignment, lot
Tw.N. III. i. 51
“his next of hair,”
1H4 I. ii. 93
“a of good
names,”
IV. ii. 19; spec. parcel
of goods sold on credit by a usurer to a needy
person, who immediately raised some cash by
re-selling them at a lower price, often to the
usurer himself
Meas. IV. iii. 5
“he's in for a commodity
of brown paper and old ginger.”
