Sale

Sale - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

SALE, n. [The primary sense of sell, is simply to deliver or cause to pass from one person to another.]

1. The act of selling; the exchange of a commodity for money of equivalent value. The exchange of one commodity for another is barter or permutation, and sale differs from barter only in the nature of the equivalent given.

2. Vent; power of selling; market. He went to market, but found no sale for his goods.

3. Auction; public sale to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market. [Little used.]

4. State of being venal, or of being offered to bribery; as, to set the liberty of a state to sale.

5. A wicker basket.

SALE, a. Sold; bought; as opposed to homemade. [Colloquial.]

sal (mimkar): The word is used: (1) in the sense of the transaction (Le 25:50); (2) in the sense of the limit of time involved in the transaction (Le 25:27); (3) in the sense of the price paid in the transaction (De 18:8), though it may be the same as (1) above.