dealth
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From deal + -th, modelled after health, stealth, wealth, etc.
Noun
[edit]dealth
- (obsolete) A share dealt out; a portion or division.
- 1921, original 1638, Nathaniel Whiting, George Saintsbury, Minor Poets of the Caroline Period: Albino and Bellama:
- Then know, Bellama, since thou aim'st at wealth
Where Fortune has bestowed her largest dealth, […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dealth”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)