4. The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap. She was too fond of her most filthy bargain. Shak. Bargain and sale (Law), a species of conveyance, by which the bargainor contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase; i.e., the bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession. Blackstone. — Into the bargain, over and above what is stipulated; besides. — To sell bargains, to make saucy ( usually indelicate) repartees. [Obs.] Swift. — To strike a bargain, to reach or ratify an agreement. "A bargain was struck." Macaulay.
Syn.
— Contract; stipulation; purchase; engagement.
BARGAIN Bar"gain, v. i. Etym: [OE. barganien, OF. bargaigner, F. barguigner, to hesitate, fr. LL. barcaniare. See Bargain, n.]
Defn: To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of
property or services; — followed by with and for; as, to bargain
with a farmer for a cow.
So worthless peasants bargain for their wives. Shak.
BARGAIN
Bar"gain, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bargained (p. pr. & vb. n. Bargaining.]
Defn: To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another. To bargain away, to dispose of in a bargain; — usually with a sense of loss or disadvantage; as, to bargain away one's birthright. "The heir . . . had somehow bargained away the estate." G. Eliot.
BARGAINEE
Bar`gain*ee", n. Etym: [OF. bargaigné, p.p. See Bargain, v. i.] (Law)
Defn: The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold. Blackstone.
BARGAINER
Bar"gain*er, n.
Defn: One who makes a bargain; — sometimes in the sense of bargainor.