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spices, etc.; -- in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense. A deal box . . . to carry groceries in. Goldsmith. The shops at which the best families of the neighborhood bought grocery and millinery. Macaulay.

To deal in small wares. [R.] To haberdash in earth's base ware. Quarles.

A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread; also, a hatter. [Obs.] The haberdasher heapeth wealth by hats. Gascoigne.

One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer and dealer in London vegetable markets.

An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.

Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified. Some haloed face bending over me. C. Bronté.

debt or good behavior. -- To take in hand. (a) To attempt or undertake. (b) To seize and deal with; as, he took him in hand. -- To wash the hands of, to disclaim or renounce interest in, or responsibility for, a person or action; as, to wash one's hands of a business. Matt. xxvii. 24. -- Under the hand of, authentic…

To deal with; to make a business of. They that handle the law knew me not. Jer. ii. 8.

One who makes, or deals in, hardware.

One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.

d or beached. -- High and mighty arrogant; overbearing. [Colloq.] -- High art, art which deals with lofty and dignified subjects and is characterized by an elevated style avoiding all meretricious display. -- High bailiff, the chief bailiff. -- High Church, and Low Church, two ecclesiastical parties in the Church of…

tion in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life. As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies. Byron. Book of Homilies. A collection of authorized, printed sermons, to be read by ministers in churches, esp. one issued in the time of Edward VI., and a second, issued in the reign of Elizabeth; -…

One who works or deal in horn or horns. [R.] Grew.

A trainer and dealer in horses.

One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.

To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains. Swift.

The business of a huckster; small dealing; peddling. Ignoble huckster age of piddling tithes. Milton.

For thy sake I admit That a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said wit. Goldsmith. A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the perplexities of mine host. W. Irving. Aqueous humor, Crystalline humor or lens, Vitreous humor. (Anat.) See Eye. -- Out of humor, dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant frame of min…

ritings of Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian poet and dramatist, whose best-known plays deal with conventional hypocrisies, the story in each play thus developing a definite moral problem.

One who deals in ice; one who retails or delivers ice.