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arpenter, a carpenter who works at shipbuilding; a shipwright. -- Ship chandler, one who deals in cordage, canvas, and other, furniture of vessels. -- Ship chandlery, the commodities in which a ship chandler deals; also, the business of a ship chandler. -- Ship fever (Med.), a form of typhus fever; -- called also pu…

A dealer in silks; a silk mercer. Shak.

In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.

Rambling; disorderly; unconnected. [Colloq.] Such a deal of skimble-scamble stuff. Shak.

One who deals in skins, pelts, or hides.

To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand. Hoyle. To slam to, to shut or close with a slam. "He slammed to the door." W. D. Howells.

he slave trade or used for transporting slaves; a slaver. -- Slave trade, the busines of dealing in slaves, especially of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere. -- Slave trader, one who traffics in slaves.

One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere. -- So*mit`ic, a.

rs buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.

Involving, or formed by, speculation; ideal; theoretical; not established by demonstration. Cudworth.

ht ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it.

One who deals in spice. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.

ertain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled.

Rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest, as square dealing.

An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange. [Cant]

ong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship. One of the closets is parqueted with plain deal, set in diamond, exceeding stanch and pretty. Evelyn.

A dealer in staple goods.

ardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl. A stingy, narrow-hearted fellow that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten. L'estrange.

tings and appliances of a workman. Simmonds. -- Stock list, a list of stocks, or shares, dealt in, of transactions, and of prices. -- Stock lock, a lock inclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a door. -- Stock market. (a) A place where stocks are bought and sold; the stock exchange. (b) A market for li…