Vocabulary

account purchase

stocking up (on); hoarding

stock (of goods); reserve; supply

outlet; market (for goods)

hack writer

auctioning off; selling off

hawker's or vendor's cry

fighting words; inflammatory words; provocative remark

sales; demand

articles for sale

Anti-Prostitution Act

short commitment (in the stock market)

living by selling off one's possessions

selling price

sales

selling

prostitution

credit sales

credit account; charge account

bill of sale

patent medicine; nonprescription drug

divine protection; divine blessing; providence

monetary offering (to a temple or shrine)

closing one's eyes

christening (ceremony)

spot where the pulse may be taken; vital point

songbird; oscine

oscines (birds of suborder Oscines); songbirds

rice given in charity; donating rice

alms

administrative policy

service for the benefit of suffering spirits

helmsman; steersman; coxswain; cox

steering (a boat); helmsman; steersman; coxswain

body of a snake; serpentine

snake charmer

serpentine (mineral)

Ophiuchus (constellation); the Serpent Bearer

snakes and scorpions

sword bean (Canavalia gladiata)