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Cheap
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [Obs.] The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. Shak.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To buy; to bargain. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value. Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. Locke.
2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean. You grow cheap in every subject's eye. Dryden. Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4
Part of speech: adverb (adv.)
Cheaply. Milton.