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Webster 1828 Edition

ppr.

Handling; managing; using; discoursing on; entertaining.

treating

treating ‎(plural treatings)

treatment
- Ambrose Bierce
  […] it would appear that before taking this precaution Mr. Bree must have had the thrift to remove a modest competency of the gold; at any rate, it was at about that time that he entered upon that memorable series of potations and treatings which is still one of the cherished traditions of the San Juan Smith country […]