Trad

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Trad \Trad\, obs.
     imp. of {Tread}. --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  trad
       n : traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  TRADE. In its most extensive signification this word includes all sorts of 
  dealings by way of Bale or exchange. In a more limited sense it signifies 
  the dealings in a particular business, as the India trade; by trade is also 
  understood the business of a particular mechanic, hence boys are said to be 
  put apprentices to learn a trade, as the trade of a carpenter, shoemaker, 
  and the like. Bac. Ab. Master and Servant, D 1. Trade differs from art. 
  (q.v.) 
       2. It is the policy of the law to encourage trade, and therefore all 
  contracts which restrain the exercise of a man's talents in trade are 
  detrimental to the commonwealth, and therefore void; though he may bind 
  himself not to exercise a trade in a particular place, for, in this last 
  case, as he may pursue it in another place, the commonwealth has the benefit 
  of it. 8 Mass. 223; 9 Mass. 522. Vide Ware R. 257, 260 Com. Dig. h.t.; Vin. 
  Ab. h.t.