Defn: An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American
Lower Silurian system; — so named from a township in Clinton Co.,
New York. See the Diagram under Geology.
CHEAP
Cheap, n. Etym: [AS. ceáp bargain, sale, price; akin to D. Koop
purchase, G. Kauf, ICel. kaup bargain. Cf. Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer,
Cope, v. i.]
Defn: 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.
CHEAP Cheap, a. Etym: [Abbrev. fr. "good cheap": a good purchase or bargain; cf. F. bon marché, à bon marché. See Cheap, n., Cheapen.]
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.]
CHEAP
Cheap, adv.
Defn: Cheaply. Milton.
CHEAP
Cheap, v. i.
Defn: To buy; to bargain. [Obs.] Chaucer.