Deal \Deal\, v. i.
   1. To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards
      to the players.
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   2. To do a distributing or retailing business, as
      distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to
      traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour.
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            They buy and sell, they deal and traffic. --South.
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            This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other
            petty merchants deal but for parcels. --Dr. H. More.
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   3. To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to
      manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or
      with.
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            Sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth
            his own credit with both, by pretending greater
            interest than he hath in either.      --Bacon.
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   4. To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or
      towards any one; to treat.
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            If he will deal clearly and impartially, . . . he
            will acknowledge all this to be true. --Tillotson.
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   5. To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition,
      check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to
      deal with.
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   To deal by, to treat, either well or ill; as, to deal well
      by servants. "Such an one deals not fairly by his own
      mind." --Locke.

   To deal in.
      (a) To have to do with; to be engaged in; to practice; as,
          they deal in political matters.
      (b) To buy and sell; to furnish, as a retailer or
          wholesaler; as, they deal in fish.

   To deal with.
      (a) To treat in any manner; to use, whether well or ill;
          to have to do with; specifically, to trade with.
          "Dealing with witches." --Shak.
      (b) To reprove solemnly; to expostulate with.
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                The deacons of his church, who, to use their own
                phrase, "dealt with him" on the sin of rejecting
                the aid which Providence so manifestly held out.
                                                  --Hawthorne.
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                Return . . . and I will deal well with thee.
                                                  --Gen. xxxii.
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