Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Deal \Deal\, v. i.
   1. To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards
      to the players.

   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.

            They buy and sell, they deal and traffic. --South.

            This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other
            petty merchants deal but for parcels. --Dr. H. More.

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

            Sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth
            his own credit with both, by pretending greater
            interest than he hath in either.      --Bacon.

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

            If he will deal clearly and impartially, . . . he
            will acknowledge all this to be true. --Tillotson.

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

   {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.

                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.

                Return . . . and I will deal well with thee.
                                                  --Gen. xxxii.
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