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One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.

A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs. Brande & C.

are of suspected credit. Bp. Stillingfleet. Eldest hand (Card Playing), the player on the dealer's left hand. R. A. Proctor.

A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods. Br. Hall.

A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack. Faro bank, the capital which the proprietor of a farotable ventures in the game; also, the place where a game of faro is played. Hoyle.…

A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts.

A dealer in fish.

A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.

A dealer in furs; one who makes or sells fur goods.

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.

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

A trainer and dealer in horses.

A manufacturer of iron, or large dealer therein. Bp. Hurd.

A dealer in iron or hardware.

A dealer in the public stocks or funds; a stockjobber. [Eng.]

A dealer in horses; a horse trader. Macaulay.

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

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…