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Distribution; apportionment. [Colloq.]

The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse; transaction; as, to have dealings with a person. Double dealing, insincere, treacherous dealing; duplicity. -- Plain dealing, fair, sincere, honorable dealing; honest, outspoken expression of opini…

he act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.

Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.

The act of passing by osmosis through animal membranes, as in the distribution of poisons, gases, etc., through the body. Unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the blood ceases to circulate.

The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration. To respect the dispensations of Providence. Burke.

The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.

The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.

To make distribution. Distributing to the necessity of saints. Rom. xii. 13.

By distribution; singly; not collectively; in a distributive manner.

The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.

Indicating division or distribution. Mede.

Distribution; dealing; apportionment. At her general dole, Each receives his ancient soul. Cleveland.

The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.

m of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy. The position which t…

Relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity; as, an eleemosynary corporation.

on for what is fair, unbiased, or impartial; just; as an equitable decision; an equitable distribution of an estate; equitable men. No two . . . had exactly the same notion of what was equitable. Macaulay.

of being equitable, just, or impartial; as, the equitableness of a judge, a decision, or distribution of property.

The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.

., executor of his own wrong] (Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.