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A dealer in horses; a horse trader. Macaulay.

-apple, a sort of apple ripe about St. John's Day. Same as Apple-john. -- John Bull, an ideal personification of the typical characteristics of an Englishman, or of the English people. -- John Bullism, English character. W. Irving. -- John Doe (Law), the name formerly given to the fictitious plaintiff in an action o…

Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.

mance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness. Justice and judgment are the haditation of thy throne. Ps. ixxxix. 11. The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, . . . I have no relish o…

A man who deals in lace.

An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones.

othing, esp. the shirt, as being, in former times, chiefly made of linen. Linen draper, a dealer in linen. -- Linen prover, a small microscope for counting the threads in a given space in linen fabrics. -- Linen scroll, Linen pattern (Arch.), an ornament for filling panels, copied from the folds of a piece of stuff s…

A dealer in linen; a linen draper. [Obs.]

disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization.

d with literature; -- chiefly used in the plural. Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a literatus may chance to be maimed. De Quincey.

A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans. The millions of the loanmonger. Beaconsfield.

An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack. When five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; -- formerly called lanterloo.

A large quantity or number; a great deal; as, to spend a lot of money; lots of people think so. [Colloq.] He wrote to her . . . he might be detained in London by a lot of business. W. Black.

m the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno. [Often written loto.]

One who deals in affairs of love.[Obs.] Shak.

The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.

Business dealing; negotiation; arrangement. He had great managements with ecclesiastics. Addison .

A slave dealer; also, a strumpet. [Obs.]

To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it. Berkeley.