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

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

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.]

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

of the standing and credit of merchants in different parts of the country, for the use of dealers who sell to them. -- Mercantile marine, the persons and vessels employed in commerce, taken collectively. -- Mercantile paper, the notes or acceptances given by merchants for goods bought, or received on consignment; dra…

Originally, a dealer in any kind of goods or wares; now restricted to a dealer in textile fabrics, as silks or woolens. [Eng.]

An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.

, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short range; -- said of the large dealers. [Cant] -- To milk a telegram, to use for one's own advantage the contents of a telegram belonging to another person. [Cant]

A female maker of, or dealer in, articles of fashion, especially of the fashionable dress of ladies; a woman who gives direction to the style or mode of dress.

A trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger.

One who makes or uses needles; also, a dealer in needles. Piers Plowman.

The business, the place of business, or the goods, of a maker of, or dealer in, oils.

A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator. [Brokers' Cant]

ng, below. -- Plain chart (Naut.), a chart laid down on Mercator's projection. -- Plain dealer. (a) One who practices plain dealing. (b) A simpleton. [Obs.] Shak. -- Plain dealing. See under Dealing. -- Plain molding (Join.), molding of which the surfaces are plain figures. -- Plain sewing, sewing of seams by simp…

A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution.

One who punts; specifically, one who plays against the banker or dealer, as in baccara and faro. Hoyle.

A low fellow; a churl. Raff merchant, a dealer in lumber and odd refuse. [Prov. Eng.]

A dealer in secrets. [Obs.]

r unduly attentive to one's own interest; close and exact in dealing; shrewd; as, a sharp dealer; a sharp customer. The necessity of being so sharp and exacting. Swift.

A dealer in silks; a silk mercer. Shak.