mercantile, a. [trading], [commercial].

mercenary, a. hired, [hireling], purchased; [greedy], [sordid], [avaricious], [grasping].

mercenary, n. [hireling].

merchandise, n. [wares], [goods], commodities.

merchant, n. [trader], [dealer], trafficker, shopkeeper, [tradesman].

merchantable, a. [salable], vendible, [marketable].

merciful, a. [pitiful], [lenient], clement, compassionate, benignant, [indulgent], [kind], [gracious], [forgiving].

merciless, a. [unmerciful], [remorseless], [cruel], [pitiless], [ruthless], [inexorable], [implacable].

Mercury, n. Hermes; quicksilver; [messenger].

Mercury's staff. caduceus.