Deal () A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

Deal () The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed.

Deal () Distribution; apportionment.

Deal () An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains.

Deal () The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.

Deal () Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal.

Dealt () of Deal

Dealing () of Deal

Deal () To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out.

Deal () Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.

Deal () To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players.

Deal () To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour.

Deal () To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with.

Deal () To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat.

Deal () To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with.

Dealbate () To whiten.

Dealbation () Act of bleaching; a whitening.

Dealer () One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.

Dealer () One who distributes cards to the players.

Dealfish () A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus).

Dealing () The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse; transaction; as, to have dealings with a person.

Dealth () Share dealt.

Deambulate () To walk abroad.

Deambulation () A walking abroad; a promenading.

Deambulatory () Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory.

Deambulatory () A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.

Dean () A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.

Dean () The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.

Dean () The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.

Dean () A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.

Dean () The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.

Deaneries () of Deanery

Deanery () The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.

Deanery () The residence of a dean.

Deanery () The territorial jurisdiction of a dean.

Deanship () The office of a dean.

Dear () Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive.

Dear () Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year.

Dear () Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious.

Dear () Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention.

Dear () Of agreeable things and interests.

Dear () Of disagreeable things and antipathies.

Dear () A dear one; lover; sweetheart.

Dear () Dearly; at a high price.

Dear () To endear.

Dearborn () A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides.

Dear-bought () Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.

Deare () variant of Dere, v. t. & n.

Dearie () Same as Deary.

Dearling () A darling.

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