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A manufacturer of tin vessels; a dealer in tinware.

A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.

To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of. Storial thing that toucheth gentilesse. Chaucer.

One who deals toys.

Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing. [Obs.] Have you any further trade with us Shak.

Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to. [Jesus] was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. Matt. xvii. 2.

One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.

To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal. A master of a ship, who deceived them under color of trucking with them. Palfrey. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. Burke. To truck and higgle for a private good. Emerson.

A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually determined by chance for each deal) any card of which takes any card of the other suits.

A man who breeds, or deals in tups. [Prov. Eng.]

A general form or structure common to a number of individuals; hence, the ideal representation of a species, genus, or other group, combining the essential characteristics; an animal or plant possessing or exemplifying the essential characteristics of a species, genus, or other group. Also, a group or division of anima…

mature; boyish; childish. [Obs.] I myself have loved a lady, and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation. J. Webster.

the entire power of perceiving an conceiving, exclusive of the sensibility: the power of dealing with the impressions of sense, and composing them into wholes, according to a law of unity; and in its most comprehensive meaning it includes even simple apprehension. Coleridge.

admitted to quotation in the unlisted department, that is, admitted to be dealt in on the floor, but not to the "regular list."

Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.

To make unreal; to idealize. His fancy . . . unrealizes everything at a touch. Lowell.

In an unreal manner; ideally.

Not dealt with in trade; not visited for purposes of trade. [Obs.] Hakluyt

Hence, any place or state of ideal perfection.

Of or pertaining to Utopia; resembling Utopia; hence, ideal; chimerical; fanciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary perfections; as, Utopian projects; Utopian happiness.