Mar·ket n.
 1. A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of buying and selling (as cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week; a farmers' market.
 He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares
 At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs.   --Shak.
    Three women and a goose make a market.   --Old Saying.
 2. A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold.
    There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool.   --John v. 2.
 3. An opportunity for selling or buying anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods; there are none for sale on the market; the best price on the market.
    There is a third thing to be considered: how a market can be created for produce, or how production can be limited to the capacities of the market.   --J. S. Mill.
 4. Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.
 5. The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.
 What is a man
 If his chief good and market of his time
 Be but to sleep and feed?   --Shak.
 6. Eng. Law The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.
 Note: ☞ Market is often used adjectively, or in forming compounds of obvious meaning; as, market basket, market day, market folk, market house, marketman, market place, market price, market rate, market wagon, market woman, and the like.
 Market beater, a swaggering bully; a noisy braggart. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
 Market bell, a bell rung to give notice that buying and selling in a market may begin. [Eng.] --Shak.
 Market cross, a cross set up where a market is held. --Shak.
 Market garden, a garden in which vegetables are raised for market.
 Market gardening, the raising of vegetables for market.
 Market place, an open square or place in a town where markets or public sales are held.
 Market town, a town that has the privilege of a stated public market.
 Gar·den n.
 1. A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
 2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.
 I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy,
 The pleasant garden of great Italy.   --Shak.
 Note: ☞ Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse.
 Garden balsam, an ornamental plant (Impatiens Balsamina).
 Garden engine, a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.
 Garden glass. (a) A bell glass for covering plants. (b) A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal, to reflect surrounding objects; -- much used as an ornament in gardens in Germany.
 Garden house (a) A summer house. --Beau. & Fl. (b) A privy. [Southern U.S.]
 Garden husbandry, the raising on a small scale of seeds, fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale.
 Garden mold or Garden mould, rich, mellow earth which is fit for a garden. --Mortimer.
 Garden nail, a cast nail, used for fastening vines to brick walls. --Knight.
 Garden net, a net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc., to protect them from birds.
 Garden party, a social party held out of doors, within the grounds or garden attached to a private residence.
 Garden plot, a plot appropriated to a garden. Garden pot, a watering pot.
 Garden pump, a garden engine; a barrow pump.
 Garden shears, large shears, for clipping trees and hedges, pruning, etc.
 Garden spider, Zool., the diadem spider (Epeira diadema), common in gardens, both in Europe and America. It spins a geometrical web. See Geometric spider, and Spider web.
 Garden stand, a stand for flower pots.
 Garden stuff, vegetables raised in a garden. [Colloq.]
 Garden syringe, a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling them with solutions for destroying insects, etc.
 Garden truck, vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.]
 Garden ware, garden truck. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
 Bear garden, Botanic garden, etc. See under Bear, etc.
 Hanging garden. See under Hanging.
 Kitchen garden, a garden where vegetables are cultivated for household use.
 Market garden, a piece of ground where vegetable are cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use.
 market garden
      n : a garden where fruit and vegetables are grown for marketing