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, 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.

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

Hence; A double-dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes. The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, so many turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on the other. Burton.

A dealer in aphorisms. [Used in derogation or contempt.] Milton.

A variety of the game of bridge in which the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score value of each trick more than six taken by the successful bidder is as f…

Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]

The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.

The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.

A dealer in books.

A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc.

A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed; as, ship chandler, corn chandler.

A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [Colloq.] He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. Dickens.

A dealer in cogware or coarse cloth. [Obs.] Wright.

A chapman; a dealer; a merchant. [Obs.] He would have sold his part of paradise For ready money, had he met a copeman. B. Jonson.

An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer. [Written also costardmonger.]

To cover one's short contracts (Stock Exchange), to buy stock when the market rises, as a dealer who has sold short does in order to protect himself. -- Covering party (Mil.), a detachment of troops sent for the protection of another detachment, as of men working in the trenches. -- To cover into, to transfer to; as,…

The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.

A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Relishes for the table; dainties; delicacies. "A dealer in delicatessen". G. H. Putnam.