commodities

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Drawn by the commodity of a footpath.— B. Jonson.[1913 Webster]

Men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered.— Hooker.[1913 Webster]

2.That which affords convenience, advantage, or profit, especially in commerce, including everything movable that is bought and sold (except animals), -- goods, wares, merchandise, produce of land and manufactures, etc. [1913 Webster]

3.A parcel or quantity of goods. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

A commodity of brown paper and old ginger.— Shak.[1913 Webster]