mart sb. (not pre-S. in the sense ‘market-place or hall’ Err. I. ii. 74, &c., Mer.V. III. i. 51)
1.
meeting of people for buying and
selling, time of holding a market
Err. I. i. 17
“Syracusian m-s and
fairs,”
Per. IV. ii. 5
“this mart.”
2.
buying and selling,
traffic
Ham. I. i. 74
“foreign for implements of
war”
; bargain Shr. II. i.
321 [329] “venture madly on a desperate
mart.”
