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English Dictionary: Deal! by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Deal \Deal\ (d[emac]l), n. [OE. del, deel, part, AS. d[aemac]l;
      akin to OS. d[emac]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.
  
                     Three tenth deals [parts of an ephah] of flour.
                                                                              --Num. xv. 9.
  
                     As an object of science it [the Celtic genius] may
                     count for a good deal . . . as a spiritual power.
                                                                              --M. Arnold.
  
                     She was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect.
                                                                              --W. Black.
  
      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.
  
      2. The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the
            portion disturbed.
  
                     The deal, the shuffle, and the cut.   --Swift.
  
      3. Distribution; apportionment. [Colloq.]
  
      4. An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination
            of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations
            and political bargains. [Slang]
  
      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.
  
      Note: Whole deal is a general term for planking one and one
               half inches thick.
  
      6. Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal.
  
      {Deal tree}, a fir tree. --Dr. Prior.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Deal \Deal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dealt} (d[ecr]lt); p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Dealing}.] [OE. delen, AS. d[aemac]lan, fr. d[aemac]l
      share; akin to OS. d[emac]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.
  
                     Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry? --Is.
                                                                              lviii. 7.
  
                     And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold.
                                                                              --Tickell.
  
                     The nightly mallet deals resounding blows. --Gay.
  
                     Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were
                     dealt.                                                --Dryden.
  
      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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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. [bd]Such an one deals not fairly by his own
            mind.[b8] --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.
                  [bd]Dealing with witches.[b8] --Shak.
            (b) To reprove solemnly; to expostulate with.
  
                           The deacons of his church, who, to use their own
                           phrase, [bd]dealt with him[b8] on the sin of
                           rejecting the aid which Providence so manifestly
                           held out.                                    --Hawthorne.
  
                           Return . . . and I will deal well with thee.
                                                                              --Gen. xxxii.
                                                                              9.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Deal, NJ (borough, FIPS 16660)
      Location: 40.24980 N, 73.99725 W
      Population (1990): 1179 (977 housing units)
      Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 07723
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