vendible

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The New Land fish is a principal and rich and everywhere vendible merchandise; and by the gain thereof shipping, victual, munition, and the transporting of five or six thousand soldiers may be defrayed.'

From Elizabethan Sea Dogs by Wood, William Charles Henry

It is not any private respect of 97gain," he affirms; "for the slightest pamphlet is nowadays more vendible than the works of learnedest men, but it is the love I bear to our own language....

From Life of John Milton by Garnett, Richard

And to certifie vs whether our set clothes be vendible there or not: and whether they be rowed and shorne: because ofttimes they goe vndrest.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Hakluyt, Richard

He had no use for white or gray birches, for they were neither timber nor vendible firewood.

From Confessions of Boyhood by Albee, John

Adj. under the hammer, on the market, for sale. salable, marketable, vendible; unsalable &c. unpurchased†, unbought; on one's hands.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark