Commodity \Com*mod"i*ty\, n.; pl. Commodities. [F.
commodit['e], fr. L. commoditas. See Commode.]
1. Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage;
interest; commodiousness. [Obs.]
Drawn by the commodity of a footpath. --B. Jonson.
Men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were
done with injury to others, it was not to be
suffered. --Hooker.
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.
3. A parcel or quantity of goods. [Obs.]
A commodity of brown paper and old ginger. --Shak.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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