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   Sell (sĕl), n. Self. [Obs. or Scot.]  B. Jonson.
   
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   Sell (sĕl), n. A sill. [Obs.]  Chaucer.
   
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   Sell (sĕl), n. A cell; a house. [Obs.]  Chaucer.
   
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   Sell (sĕl), n. [F. selle, L. sella, akin to sedere to sit. See Sit.]
   1. A saddle for a horse. [Obs.]
   
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   He left his lofty steed with golden self. Spenser.
   
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   2. A throne or lofty seat. [Obs.]  Fairfax.
   
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   Sell (sĕl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sold (sōld); p. pr. & vb. n. Selling.] [OE. sellen, sillen, AS. sellan, syllan, to give, to deliver; akin to OS. sellian, OFries. sella, OHG. sellen, Icel. selja to hand over, to sell, Sw. sälja to sell, Dan. sælge, Goth. saljan to offer a sacrifice; all from a noun akin to E. sale.  Cf. Sale.]
   1. To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money.  It is the correlative of buy.
   
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   If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor. Matt. xix. 21.
   
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   I am changed; I'll go sell all my land. Shak.
   
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   ☞ Sell is corellative to buy, as one party buys what the other sells. It is distinguished usually from exchange or barter, in which one commodity is given for another; whereas in selling the consideration is usually money, or its representative in current notes.
   
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   2. To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray.
   
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   You would have sold your king to slaughter. Shak.
   
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   3. To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat. [Slang]  Dickens.
   
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   To sell one's life dearly, to cause much loss to those who take one's life, as by killing a number of one's assailants. -- To sell (anything) out, to dispose of it wholly or entirely; as, he had sold out his corn, or his interest in a business.
   
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   Sell (sĕl), v. i.
   1. To practice selling commodities.
   
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   I will buy with you, sell with you; . . . but I will not eat with you. Shak.
   
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   2. To be sold; as, “corn sells at a good price”.
   
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   To sell out, to sell one's whole stock in trade or one's entire interest in a property or a business.
   
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   Sell, n. An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. [Colloq.]
   
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