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tion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold. Three tenth deals [parts of an ephah] of flour. Num. xv. 9. As an object of science it [the Celtic genius] may count for a good deal . . . as a spiritual power. M. Arnold. She was resolved…

To whiten. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Act of bleaching; a whitening. [Obs.]

One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; 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.

A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus).

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…

Share dealt. [Obs.]

mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model.

One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.

False or deceitful dealing. See Double dealing, under Dealing. Shak.

Mutual dealings; intercourse. [Obs.] The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.

The fourth part of an acre of land. [Obs.] [Written also farding dale, fardingale, etc.]

Half; by the part. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- n.

Same as Hyoid, a.

Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.

Destitute of an idea.

The quality or state of being ideal.

One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations.

Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.

The quality or state of being ideal.