“With the short funds proposed, we shall fall miserably short,” Jefferson said, accusing legislators of “higgling” and failing to recognize “that knowledge is power.”

There, forgetting the scenes he had just left, he would stand in the cold or rain, higgling with the butcher for a shilling.

"Eli, my man, an yon merchant comes our way let us buy a hundred ells of cloth of him, and not higgle."