HABERDASHER, in commerce, a seller of hats and other small wares.—The master and warden of the company of haberdashers in London, calling to their assistance one of the company of cappers, and another of the hat-makers, and mayors, &c. of towns, may search the wares of all haters who work hats with foreign wool, and who have not been apprentices to the trade, or who dye them with any thing but copperas and galls, or wood and madder; in which cases, they are liable to penalties by stat. 8 Eliz. cap. 7. and 5 Geo. II. cap. 22. See BERDASH.