1. One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. [Obs.] The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller. 2. A peddler; a hawker.
A poisoned condition of the blood produced by the
absorption into it of septic or putrescent material; blood poisoning.
It is marked by chills, fever, prostratio...