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Mercantile agency, an agency for procuring
information of the standing and credit of merchants in different
parts of the country, for the use of dealers who sell to them. -
- Mercantile marine, the persons and vessels
employed in commerce, taken collectively. -- Mercantile
paper, the notes or acceptances given by merchants for
goods bought, or received on consignment; drafts on merchants for
goods sold or consigned. McElrath.

Syn. -- Mercantile, Commercial.
Commercial is the wider term, being sometimes used to embrace
mercantile. In their stricter use, commercial relates
to the shipping, freighting, forwarding, and other business connected
with the commerce of a country (whether external or internal),
that is, the exchange of commodities; while mercantile applies
to the sale of merchandise and goods when brought to market. As the
two employments are to some extent intermingled, the two words are
often interchanged.

Mer*cap"tal (?), n. [Mercaptan +
aldehyde.] (Chem.


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