The man that speculates in the government's snake crop wants to go carefully.
However, I think that a person who speculates in snakes is a fool, anyway.
A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized.
Defn: One whospeculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks.
Defn: One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp.
He speculatespretty heavily in all sorts of stock and has dropped a lot of money the last six months.
So, you see, Tom, the first step is gained, and we have found out that the respectable president of Brownsville Bank speculates largely under an assumed name.
Martius, Galeottus, speculates on the meaning of the marks of the suits, 93.
A few days later he again dwells on geology, and speculates shrewdly on the formation of the lowland around Yarmouth and the ancient course of the river.
Few things, as he journeys, escape his notice; he describes facts carefully and speculatesbut little.
Thus some Darwinians assert that the germs of morality exist in brutes, and we have seen that Mr. Darwin himself speculates on the subject as regards the highest apes.
John Wu in The Golden Age of Zen speculates that this shout was of the first category, since it was meant to "cut off" the monk's sequential thought, but that seems a rather simplistic mixing of the metaphorical with the concrete.
When a man speculates and doesn't win of course he throws the blame on some one else.
She speculates on Charlie's chances for the county.
To get his shoestrings he speculates in herds of cattle.
The one who speculates on the markets is not counted dishonest by the world, but how often and how quickly it leads one into crime!
He speculates on the prices of next week's, of next month's meat and breadstuffs.
He speculateswith the savings which two girls had entrusted to him for investment.
He speculates on the Stock Exchange, which, being poor, he could only do by accepting profit and refusing to meet loss.
At the end of the last century he notes the invasion of schools by the bicycle, and speculates fantastically on its results.
Thus Tjaelde speculates in hospitality as in everything else, and when he virtually has nothing, makes the grandest splurge in order to give a spurious impression of prosperity.
Bull~, one who agrees to purchase stock at a future day, at a stated price, but who simply speculates for a rise in public securities to render the transaction a profitable one.
Lame duck~, a stockjobber whospeculates beyond his capital, and cannot pay his losses.
He speculateswhy the partridges and deer in South America are so tame.
Thus with the Celtic hero Brian,[452] the pretended fool, who speculates upon the stupidity of those who are reputed wise.
Ivan, thought to be stupid, speculates upon his dead mother; his brothers try to do the same by their wives, and are punished.
The moralist who speculates on the contingencies of human conduct can only divine the future from what has already been acted on the earth.
But he who speculates daily puts himself exactly in the reversed position.
If a man speculates but once and again, now and then, as it were, he must of course be a loser.
One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks.
One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp.
George takes the money, and George does what he likes with it--puts it here and there, and speculates in this and speculates in that.
It is said that hespeculates for your mother-in-law with her funds.
An inventor speculates on what he is going to invent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speculates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
