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ers; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.

ld, a magistrate of Scotch burghs, formerly, and still, in some burghs, chosen by the Guildry, whose duty is to superintend the erection of new buildings and see that they conform to the law. -- Dean of a monastery, Monastic dean, a monastic superior over ten monks. -- Dean's stall. See Decanal stall, under Decanal.…

At a high rate or price; grievously. He buys his mistress dearly with his throne. Dryden.

her press'd, she faint with dearth. Shak. Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination. Dryden.

Cause of loss of life. Swiftly flies the feathered death. Dryden. He caught his death the last county sessions. Addison.

temperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery. The first physicians by debauch were made. Dryden.

e lilies of France without the baton sinister, under which, according to the laws of heraldry, they where debruised in token of his illegitimate birth. Macaulay.

Decency. [Obs.] Dryden.

xl. 10. And deck my body in gay ornaments. Shak. The dew with spangles decked the ground. Dryden.

ke fawning courtiers, for success they wait, And then come smiling, and declare for fate. Dryden.

o blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage. For small errors they whole plays decry. Dryden. Measures which are extolled by one half of the kingdom are naturally decried by the other. Addison.

Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental. "An epistle dedicatory." Dryden.

Inference; deduction; thing deduced. [R.] Dryden.

chievement; exploit. "Knightly deeds." Spenser. Whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn. Dryden.

to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard. For never can I deem him less him less than god. Dryden.

Having a loud and sonorous voice. "Deep-mouthed dogs." Dryden.

pute. My guilt thy growing virtues did defame; My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name. Dryden.

bat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat. A war without a just defiance made. Dryden. Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down. Tennyson.

ormed; misshapen; shapeless; horrid. [Obs.] Sight so deform what heart of rock could long Dry-eyed behold Milton.

e deftest way." Shak. "Deftest feats." Gay. The limping god, do deft at his new ministry. Dryden. Let me be deft and debonair. Byron.