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Ideal disjunction; discrepancy; contrariety. Locke.

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot. She did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred. Judith xvi. 24.

One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser. Addison.

That distributes; dealing out. Distributing past office, an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.

Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share. "Distributive justice." Swift.

One who deals out to each his share. Who made me a judge or a divider over you Luke xii. 14.

es." Tillotson. -- To have to do with, to have concern, business or intercourse with; to deal with. When preceded by what, the notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern the person denoted by the subject of have. "Philology has to do with language in its fullest sense." Earle. "What have I to do with y…

One who has an unusual fancy for, or interest in, dogs; also, one who deals in dogs.

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

; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power. The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel. Macaulay. Dominant estate or tenement (Law), the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate ov…

Deceitfully. "A man that deals doubly." Huloet.

A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war. On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel . . . at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal. Cook (First Voyage).…

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

The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth. Bacon.

One who deals in drugs; especially, one who buys and sells drugs without compounding them; also, a pharmaceutist or apothecary.

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.

, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack.

One who gathers, or deals in, eggs.

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

o hold out. Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee Ezek. xxii. 14.