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Keep me from the vengeance of thy darts, 
Which Niobe’s devoted i(Tue felt, 
When hilling through the Ikies the feather’d deaths were 
dealt. Dry den. 
To give gradually ; or one after another.—The nightly 
mallet deals refounding blows. Gay. 
To DEAL, v. n. To traffic; to tranfaft bufinefs; to 
trade.-—It is generally better to deal by fpeech than by 
letter; and by a man himfelf, than by the mediation of 
a third. Bacon. 
With the fond maids in palmiBry he deals, 
They tell the fecret which he firffc reveals. Prior. 
To aft between two perfons ; to intervene.—Sometimes 
he that deals between man and man, raifeth his own credit 
with both, by pretending greater intereB than he hath in 
either. Bacon. —To behave well or ill in any tranfaftion. 
—I doubt not, if he will deal clearly and impartially, 
but that he will acknowledge all this to be true. Tillot- 
Jun. —To aft in any manner : 
Two deep enemies, 
Foes to my red, and my fweet deep’s difturbers, 
Are they that I would have thee deal upon. Shakfpeare. 
To diftribute the cards: 
Sal found her deep-laid fchemes were vain ; 
The cards are cut; come, deal again. Shetfone. 
To Deal by. To treat well or ill. Thisfeems a vitious 
nfe. —Such an one deals not fairly by his own mind, nor 
conducts his own underBanding aright. Locke. 
To Deal in. To have to do with ; to be engaged in ; 
to praftife.—Among authors, none draw upon them- 
felves more difpleafure than thofe who deal in political 
matters Addfo.n. —True logic is not that noify tiling that 
deals all in dil'pute, to which the former ages had debafed 
it. Watts. 
To Deal with. To treat in any manner; to ufe well 
or ill.—If a man would have his confcience deal clearly 
zoitk him, he mull deal feverely with that. South. 
Who then (hall guide 
His people ? Who defend ? Will they not deal 
Worfe with his followers, than with him they dealt ? Milt. 
To contend with.—If (lie hated me, I fhould know what 
paflion to deal with. Sidney. 
DEAL, [of dole, C. Br. a dale or plain lying next the 
fea.] A confiderable fea-port on the coaB of Kent, be¬ 
tween the North and South Forelands. It lias no har¬ 
bour, but the fea between the (hore and the Godwin 
Sands, called the Downs, is generally a fecure road for 
.fliips, where they Bop, both outward and homeward, to i 
put in letters, to fet palfengers on-lliore, to take in pro- 
vifions, wait for orders, &c. The pilots of Deal are good 
feamen, bold and active in affording afliBance to veffels 
in difirefs, in faving the lives of thofe on-board, and 
bringing the cargo to land. Cables, anchors, &c. are 
always ready to flip ply veffels which may Band in need 
of them. Its markets are on Tuefdays and Saturdays, 
and well fupplied with Bill, poultry, vegetables, and 
other neceflaries. It has two fairs annually, on April 5, 
and Oftober 10. Deal is governed by a mayor, recorder, 
and twelve jurats. It is defended by a caBle ; or rather 
feveral caBles were built to defend the coaB between 
Dover and the North Foreland. Julius Csefar landed 
here when he made his firB defcent on the ifland. Deal 
is not reckoned one of the cinque ports, but is a mem¬ 
ber of Sandwich. The number of inhabitants is eBimated 
at 4500. It is diBant nine miles from Dover, fifteen from 
Margate, eighteen from Canterbury, and feventy-two 
eaB-fouth-euB from London. Lat. 51. 14. N. Ion. 1. 30. 
E. Greenwich. 
fo DEAL'SATE, ». a, \_dcallo, Lat.] To whiten; to 
bleach. 
DElALBA'TION,y.[daz/$a;i0,Lat. J The aft ofbleach- 
jng or whitening ; rendering things white which were not 
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fo before : a word in little ufe. —All feed is white in vivi¬ 
parous animals, and fuch as have preparing veffels where¬ 
in it receives a manifold dealbation. Brozm. 
DEAL'ER,y One that has to do with any thing.-—I 
find it common with thefe fmall dealers in wit and learn¬ 
ing, to give themfelves a title from their firB adventure. 
Swift. —A trader or trafficker.—Where fraud is permit¬ 
ted and connived at, the honeff dealer is always u-ndone, 
and the knave gets the advantage. Gulliver. —A perfon 
Who deals the cards. 
DEAL'ING,yi Pr»ftice ; aftion. — Concerning the 
dealings of men, who adminiBer government, and unto 
whom the execution of that law belongeth, they have 
their judge, W'ho fitteth in heaven. Hooker. ' 
Their own hard dealing them to fufpeft 
The thoughts of others. Shakefpeare. 
Intercourfe.—It were to be wiflied that men would pro¬ 
mote the happinefs of one another, in all their private 
dealings', among thofe who lie within their influence. Ad - 
dfon. —Meafure of treatment; mode in which one treats 
another.—God’s gracious dealings with men are the aids 
and auxiliaries neceffary to us in the purfuit of piety. 
Hammond. —Traffic ; bufinefs.—The doftor muB needs 
die rich ; he had great dealings in his way for many years. 
Swift. 
DE AMBULA'TION,_/i [deambulatic, Lat. J The aft 
of walking abroad. 
DEAM'BULATORY, adj. \_deambulo, Lat.] Relating 
to the practice of walking abroad. 
DEAME'NA, in heathen mythology, the goddefswho 
was fuppofed to prefide over women during the period 
of their menfes. Ajh. 
DEAN, f. [ decanus, Lat. from the Greek Saxo,, ten.] 
An ecclefiaBical governor or dignitary, fo called, as he 
prefides over ten canons or prebendaries at the leaB. 
And we call him a dean, that is next under the bifliop, 
and chief of the chapter, ordinarily in a cathedral church; 
the reft of the fociety being called capitulum, the chap¬ 
ter. As there are two foundations of cathedral churches 
in England, the old and the new, the new erefted by 
Henry VIII. fo there are two means of creating theic 
deans : for thofe of the old foundation, as the dean of 
St. Paul’s, York, &c. are exalted to their dignity much 
like bifhops ; the king firB fending out his conge d’elirc 
to the chapter to choofe fuch dean, and the chapter then 
choofing, the king afterwards yielding his royal affent, 
and the billiop confirming him, and giving his mandate 
to inflall hint. Thofe of the new foundation, whole 
deaneries were tranflated from priories and convents to 
dean and chapter, are donative, and inBalled by a fliorter 
courle, by virtue of the king’s letters-patent, without 
either eleftion or confirmation; and are vifitabie only by 
the lord-chancellor, or by fpecial commiffion from the 
king: but the letters-patent are prefented to the bifltop 
for infiitution, and a mandate for inflalment goes forth. 
1 Inf. 95. Davis, 46, 47. The new deaneries and chapters 
to old bilhoprics are eight, viz. Canterbury, Norwich, 
Winchefler, Durham, Ely, Rochefler, Worcefier, and 
Carlifle. The new deaneries and chapters to new bifliop- 
rics are five, Peterborough, Chefier, Gloucefter, BriBol, 
and Oxford. 1 Inf. 95. a. n. 3. 
Of the four Wellh cathedrals, two are without deans ; 
or rather the dignities of bifltop and dean unite in the 
fame perfon, the bifltop being deemed quaf decanus-, and 
having, it is faid, both an epifcopal throne and a decanal 
Ball allotted to him in the choir. Of this kind are the 
cathedrals of St. David’s and Llandafi'. St. Afaph and 
Bangor, the two other Welflt cathedrals, have the dig¬ 
nity of dean diflinft front that of bifhop, but the patron¬ 
age of both deaneries is in the refpeftive bilhops, they 
being neither eleftive by the chapter, nor donative in 
the crown. In Ireland it feents that the king appoints to 
deaneries, as to bilhoprics, by letters-patent. 
Various kinds of deans, befides deans of chapters, are 
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