1618 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 42 This place never yet..gave vend to any quantety of our commodity.

1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon 32 Neither have they any encouragement for their industry, having no Vend by Traffic and Commerce for what they have got.

1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. ix. 510 This Market is of great resort, and a good vend for all Country Commodities.

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xlvi. 152 Pepper is planted for Export, but not above 300 Tuns in a Year, because they want Vend for more.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xxii. 103 There is a person..who is a great dealer in Indian silks,..and has a great vend for them.

1818 H. T. Colebrooke On Import Colonial Corn 60 Corn is stored..and kept for years..in expectation of a future vend and a less glutted market.

1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 5 in T. Nourse Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd (ed. 3) This I think is shameful for Owners, who striving to get all the Trade to themselves, or to have a Major Part of Vend, will fall out among themselves.

1793 Earl of Dundonald Descr. Estate Culross 59 Sir Archibald had better have contented himself with a more limited vend at a greater price.

1834 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce (ed. 2) 289 The annual vend of coals carried coastwise from Durham and Northumberland is 3,300,000 tons.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Vend,..the whole quantity of coal sent from a colliery in the year.

1893 G. Neasham North-country Sketches 28 By agreement..they were limited to an annual vend of 12,000 chaldrons.

1622 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1622–3 (1908) 46 Course and fine pursleene..which vend both slowlye and at cheape rates.

1640 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 96 Whereby Wool, the great Staple of the Kingdom, is become of small value, and vends not.

1689 E. Hickeringill Speech Without-doors v. 32 No Books vend so nimbly, as those that are sold (by Stealth as it were) and want Imprimaturs.

1768 B. Franklin in Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 157/2 If our manufactures are too dear, they will not vend abroad.

1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 71 No Nation can be rich that receives more dead Commodities from abroad, then it can spend at home, or vend into Forrain parts.

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 279 Formerly all the Silk made in Sicily was vended at Messina.

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xxiii. 124 The Company vends a great Deal of Cloth and Ophium there, and brings Gold-dust in Return.

1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. vi. 453 They opened ware-houses in different parts of Europe, in which they vended their commodities.

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon viii. 224 The produce of these small dairies is generally vended at Plymouth.

1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story vii Fishmongers who never sold a fish, mercers who vended not a yard of riband.

1879 Echo No. 3374. 2/5 A license or patent to sell no matter what, includes the right to vend books and newspapers.

1657 tr. A. Thevet Prosopographia 8 in T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) Doubtless many have heard some Coridons, or Mechanick fellows..vending their judgements on him whose Effigies or Portraiture is here represented.

1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity iii. v. 364 This uncomfortable Doctrine was if not first coined yet mainly vended by the Novatian Party.

1715 R. Bentley Serm. Popery 26 He that zealously vends his Novelties..what is He but a Trader for the Fame of Singularity?

1718 Free-thinker No. 26. 1 To incite the Men of Scholarship and Capacity to Traffick altogether in Truths, and never to vend Falshoods of any Kind to the Vulgar.

1799 J. West Tale of Times III. 387 The most fashionable, and perhaps most successful, way of vending pernicious sentiments has been through the medium of books of entertainment.

1846 G. S. Faber Lett. Tractarian Secession Popery 126 Those requisite proofs of a fact, which convict him and Mr. Ward of having..vended a double falsehood.

1907 P. T. Forsyth Positive Preaching iii. 101 He is not free to vend in his pulpit the extravagances of an eccentric individualism.

1682 E. Hickeringill Black Non-Conformist v. 20 If they will be angry, they should vend their spleen against the said wickednesses of their Under-Officers.