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  • English Word Deal Definition Distribution; apportionment.
  • English Word Deal Definition An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains.
  • English Word Deal Definition 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.
  • English Word Deal Definition Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal.
  • English Word Deal Definition To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out.
  • English Word Deal Definition Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.
  • English Word Deal Definition To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players.
  • English Word Deal Definition 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.
  • English Word Deal Definition To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with.
  • English Word Deal Definition To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat.
  • English Word Deal Definition To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with.
  • English Word Dealbate Definition To whiten.
  • English Word Dealbation Definition Act of bleaching; a whitening.
  • English Word Dealer Definition 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.
  • English Word Dealer Definition One who distributes cards to the players.
  • English Word Dealfish Definition A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus).
  • English Word Dealing Definition 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.
  • English Word Dealing Definition of Deal
  • English Word Dealt Definition of Deal
  • English Word Dealth Definition Share dealt.
  • English Word Deambulate Definition To walk abroad.
  • English Word Deambulation Definition A walking abroad; a promenading.
  • English Word Deambulatory Definition Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory.
  • English Word Deambulatory Definition A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.
  • English Word Dean Definition A dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.
  • English Word Dean Definition The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.
  • English Word Dean Definition The head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.
  • English Word Dean Definition A registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.
  • English Word Dean Definition The chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.
  • English Word Deaneries Definition of Deanery