dealth en · NOUN
Etymology
From deal + -th (abstract nominal suffix), modelled after health, stealth, wealth, etc.
Meanings
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(obsolete) A share dealt out; a portion or division.
Right well deserued as his duefull meed, Her loue, her seruice, and her vtmost wealth. All is his iustly, that all freely dealth
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Then know, Bellama, since thou aim'st at wealth Where Fortune has bestowed her largest dealth, […]
1921, original 1638, Nathaniel Whiting, George Saintsbury, Minor Poets of the Caroline Period: Albino and Bellama: