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The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed. The deal, the shuffle, and the cut. Swift.

One who distributes cards to the players.

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…

on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy. Cardinal dean, the senior cardinal bishop of the college of cardinals at Rome. Shipley. -- Dean and chapter, the legal corporation and governing body of a cathedral. It consists of the dean, who is chief, and his canons or preben…

A pack or set of playing cards. The king was slyly fingered from the deck. Shak.

A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc. Knight.

A group of fishlike animals including the Marsipobranchiata and Leptocardia.

Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts.

as distinguished from an artistical one. Indicator diagram. (Steam Engine) See Indicator card, under indicator

One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.

literal factor, as numbered in characterizing a term. The term dimensions forms with the cardinal numbers a phrase equivalent to degree with the ordinal; thus, a2b2c is a term of five dimensions, or of the fifth degree.

arefooted; -- in distinction from calced. "The foundation of houses of discalced friars." Cardinal Manning's St. Teresa.

To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.

One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.

A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards. Ure.

A game of cards in which the suits are played in sequence, beginning with a 5 or 9, the player who gets rid of his cards first being the winner.

The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four- handed game of cards.

een to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west. The east began kindle. E. E…

itened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight. Honors are easy (Card Playing), said when each side has an equal number of honors, in which case they are not counted as points.