touting

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of tout

noun

1. The act of one who touts.

   “Abortive therefore, in a great measure, are the daily toutings of the emigration speculators, and their active crimps, with all their plausible assurances of speedy independence to be gained by adventurers of the pauper class […]”