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Deal \Deal\ (d[=e]l), n. [OE. del, deel, part, AS. d[=ae]l; akin
to OS. d[=e]l, D. & Dan. deel, G. theil, teil, Icel. deild,
Sw. del, Goth. dails. [root]65. Cf. 3d {Dole}.]
1. 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.
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Three tenth deals [parts of an ephah] of flour.
--Num. xv. 9.
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As an object of science it [the Celtic genius] may
count for a good deal . . . as a spiritual power.
--M. Arnold.
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She was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect.
--W. Black.
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Note: It was formerly limited by some, every, never a, a
thousand, etc.; as, some deal; but these are now
obsolete or vulgar. In general, we now qualify the word
with great or good, and often use it adverbially, by
being understood; as, a great deal of time and pains; a
great (or good) deal better or worse; that is, better
by a great deal, or by a great part or difference.
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2. The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the
portion disturbed.
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The deal, the shuffle, and the cut. --Swift.
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3. Distribution; apportionment. [Colloq.]
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4. An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination
of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations
and political bargains. [Slang]
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5. [Prob. from D. deel a plank, threshing floor. See
{Thill}.] 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.
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Note: Whole deal is a general term for planking one and one
half inches thick.
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6. Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal.
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{Deal tree}, a fir tree. --Dr. Prior.
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Deal \Deal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dealt} (d[e^]lt); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Dealing}.] [OE. delen, AS. d[=ae]lan, fr. d[=ae]l share;
akin to OS. d[=e]lian, D. deelen, G. theilen, teilen, Icel.
deila, Sw. dela, Dan. dele, Goth. dailjan. See {Deal}, n.]
1. To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in
portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; --
sometimes with out.
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Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry? --Is.
lviii. 7.
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And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold.
--Tickell.
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The nightly mallet deals resounding blows. --Gay.
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Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were
dealt. --Dryden.
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2. Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at
the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal
one a jack.
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Deal \Deal\, v. i.
1. To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards
to the players.
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2. 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.
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They buy and sell, they deal and traffic. --South.
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This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other
petty merchants deal but for parcels. --Dr. H. More.
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3. To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to
manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or
with.
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Sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth
his own credit with both, by pretending greater
interest than he hath in either. --Bacon.
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4. To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or
towards any one; to treat.
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If he will deal clearly and impartially, . . . he
will acknowledge all this to be true. --Tillotson.
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5. To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition,
check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to
deal with.
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{To deal by}, to treat, either well or ill; as, to deal well
by servants. "Such an one deals not fairly by his own
mind." --Locke.

{To deal in}.
(a) To have to do with; to be engaged in; to practice; as,
they deal in political matters.
(b) To buy and sell; to furnish, as a retailer or
wholesaler; as, they deal in fish.

{To deal with}.
(a) To treat in any manner; to use, whether well or ill;
to have to do with; specifically, to trade with.
"Dealing with witches." --Shak.
(b) To reprove solemnly; to expostulate with.
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The deacons of his church, who, to use their own
phrase, "dealt with him" on the sin of rejecting
the aid which Providence so manifestly held out.
--Hawthorne.
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Return . . . and I will deal well with thee.
--Gen. xxxii.
9.
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