[ F. beau beautiful + idéal ideal. ] A conception or image of consummate beauty, moral or physical, formed in the mind, free from all the deformities, defects, and blemishes seen in actual existence; an ideal or faultless standard or model. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a financial specialist who trades for his own account and so acts both as a broker and principal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. del, deel, part, AS. d&aemacr_;l; akin to OS. dēl, D. & Dan. deel, G. theil, teil, Icel. deild, Sw. del, Goth. dails. √65. Cf. 3d Dole. ] 1. A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Three tenth deals [ parts of an ephah ] of flour. Num. xv. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

As an object of science it [ the Celtic genius ] may count for a good deal . . . as a spiritual power. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

She was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect. W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It was formerly limited by some, every, never a, a thousand, etc.; as, some deal; but these are now obsolete or vulgar. In general, we now qualify the word with great or good, and often use it adverbially, by being understood; as, a great deal of time and pains; a great (or good) deal better or worse; that is, better by a great deal, or by a great part or difference. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed. [ 1913 Webster ]

The deal, the shuffle, and the cut. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Distribution; apportionment. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. [ Prob. from D. deel a plank, threshing floor. See Thill. ] The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Whole deal is a general term for planking one and one half inches thick. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deal tree, a fir tree. Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dealt p. pr. & vb. n. Dealing. ] [ OE. delen, AS. d&aemacr_;lan, fr. d&aemacr_;l share; akin to OS. dēlian, D. deelen, G. theilen, teilen, Icel. deila, Sw. dela, Dan. dele, Goth. dailjan. See Deal, n. ] 1. To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry? Is. lviii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold. Tickell. [ 1913 Webster ]

The nightly mallet deals resounding blows. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

They buy and sell, they deal and traffic. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other petty merchants deal but for parcels. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth his own credit with both, by pretending greater interest than he hath in either. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat. [ 1913 Webster ]

If he will deal clearly and impartially, . . . he will acknowledge all this to be true. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Return . . . and I will deal well with thee. Gen. xxxii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. dealbatus, p. p. of dealbare. See Daub. ] To whiten. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dealbatio: cf. F. déalbation. ] Act of bleaching; a whitening. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who distributes cards to the players. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From deal a long, narrow plank. ] (Zool.) A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Double dealing, insincere, treacherous dealing; duplicity. --
Plain dealing, fair, sincere, honorable dealing; honest, outspoken expression of opinion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Share dealt. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person; a person who says one thing and does another. L'Estrange.
Syn. -- double-crosser, betrayer, traitor. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

False or deceitful dealing; acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another. See Double dealing, under Dealing. Shak.
Syn. -- duplicity. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. given to deception especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; as, they accused each other of double-dealing behavior.
Syn. -- ambidextrous, deceitful, duplicitous, two-faced. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Enter- + deal. ] Mutual dealings; intercourse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Farthing, and Deal a part. ] The fourth part of an acre of land. [ Obs. ] [ Written also farding dale, fardingale, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. halfendele. See Half, and Deal. ] Half; by the half part. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. -- n. A half part. [ Obs. ] R. of Brunne. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Same as Hyoid, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. idealis: cf. F. idéal. ] 1. Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence. Rambler. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal. “Planning ideal common wealth.” Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Math.) Imaginary.

Syn. -- Intellectual; mental; visionary; fanciful; imaginary; unreal; impracticable; utopian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ideal is to be attained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species. Thus, the Apollo Belvedere is the ideal of the beauty and proportion of the human frame. Fleming. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beau ideal. See Beau ideal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of an idea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Same as idealization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. 1. Same as idealize. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. idéalisme. ] 1. The quality or state of being ideal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Conception of the ideal; imagery. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Philos.) The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns; -- opposed to realism. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. a belief in the feasibility of the implementation of ideal principles and noble goals, and the practice or habit of pursuing such goals; -- opposed to realism and cynicism. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. idéaliste. ] 1. One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who holds the doctrine of idealism, in any sense. In senses 4 and 5 of idealism, opposed to realist. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Idealities 1. The quality or state of being ideal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Phren.) The conceptive faculty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of idealizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fine Arts) The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A defense mechanism that splits something one is ambivalent about into two representations -- one good and one bad. [ wns=1 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. something that exists only as an idea. [ wns=2 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

5. a protrayal of something as ideal. [ wns=3 ]
Syn. -- glorification. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Idealized p. pr. & vb. n. Idealizing ] 1. To make ideal; to consider as ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; as, to idealize real life. [ wns=1 ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fine Arts) To treat in an ideal manner. See Idealization, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. to form ideals. [ wns=2 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ Cf. F. idéaliser. ] To form ideals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An idealist. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an ideal manner; by means of ideals; mentally. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an idealogue, or to idealization. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Idea + -logue, as in theologue: cf. F. idéologue. ] One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator. [ R. ] Mrs. Browning.

v. i. To intrigue. [ Obs. ] Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Misdealt p. pr. & vb. n. Misdealing. ] To deal or distribute wrongly, as cards; to make a wrong distribution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of misdealing; a wrong distribution of cards to the players. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. ordāl, ord&aemacr_;l, a judgment; akin to D. oordeel, G. urteil, urtheil; orig., what is dealt out, the prefix or- being akin to ā- compounded with verbs, G. er-, ur-, Goth. us-, orig. meaning, out. See Deal, v. & n., and cf. Arise, Ort. ] 1. An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In England ordeal by fire and ordeal by water were used, the former confined to persons of rank, the latter to the common people. The ordeal by fire was performed, either by handling red-hot iron, or by walking barefoot and blindfold over red-hot plowshares, laid at unequal distances. If the person escaped unhurt, he was adjudged innocent; otherwise he was condemned as guilty. The ordeal by water was performed, either by plunging the bare arm to the elbow in boiling water, an escape from injury being taken as proof of innocence, or by casting the accused person, bound hand and foot, into a river or pond, when if he floated it was an evidence of guilt, but if he sunk he was acquitted. It is probable that the proverbial phrase, to go through fire and water, denoting severe trial or danger, is derived from the ordeal. See Wager of battle, under Wager. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ordeal bean. (Bot.) See Calabar bean, under Calabar. --
Ordeal root (Bot.) the root of a species of Strychnos growing in West Africa, used, like the ordeal bean, in trials for witchcraft. --
Ordeal tree (Bot.), a poisonous tree of Madagascar (Tanghinia venenata syn. Cerbera venenata). Persons suspected of crime are forced to eat the seeds of the plumlike fruit, and criminals are put to death by being pricked with a lance dipped in the juice of the seeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The excess. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The overdeal in the price will be double. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Practicing plain dealing; artless. See Plain dealing, under Dealing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In some degree; somewhat. [ Written also sumdel, sumdeale, and sumdele. ] [ Obs. ] “She was somedeal deaf.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou lackest somedeal their delight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Thyroid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Crafty, unfair, or underhand dealing; unfair practice; trickery. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not ideal; real; unimaginative. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unideaed. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

See high.
See honorable.
See hopeful.
See hostile.
See hurt.
See hhurtful.
See hygienic.
See ideal.
See idle.
See illusory.
See imaginable.
See imaginative.
See immortal.
See implicit.
See important.
See impressible. See >Unimpressible.
See impressionable.
See improvable.
See impugnable.
See incidental.
See increasable.
See indifferent.
See indulgent.
See industrious.
See inflammable.
See influential.
See ingenious.
See ingenuous.
See inhabitable.
See injurious.
See inquisitive.
See instructive.
See intelligent.
See intelligible.
See intentional.
See interesting.
See interpretable.
See inventive.
See investigable.
See jealous.
See joyful.
See joyous.
See justifiable.
See kingly.
See knightly.
See knotty.
See knowable.
See laborious.
See ladylike.
See level.
See libidinous.
See lightsome.
See limber.
See lineal.
See logical.
See lordly.
See losable.
See lovable.
See lucent.
See luminous.
See lustrous.
See lusty.
See maidenly.
See makable.
See malleable.
See manageable.
See manful.
See manlike.
See manly.
See marketable.
See marriable.
See marriageable.
See marvelous.
See masculine.
See matchable.
See matronlike.
See meek.
See meet.
See melodious.
See mendable.
See mentionable.
See mercenary.
See merciable.
See meritable.
See merry.
See metaphorical.
See mighty.
See mild.
See military.
See mindful.
See mingleable.
See miraculous.
See miry.
See mitigable.
See modifiable.
See modish.
See moist.
See monkish.
See motherly.
See muscular.
See musical.
See mysterious.
See namable.
See native.
See navigable.
See needful.
See negotiable.
See niggard.
See noble.
See objectionable.
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Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1. [ 1913 Webster ]