Intercourse, friendly or business communication, connection. Now usually plural.

Dealing; intercourse. Scottish. See dale, n.1 2.

Chiefly in negative constructions: dealings, intercourse, communication with. Now rare (in later use merging with sense 14a).

transferred and figurative. to come in contact with: to meet, come across, be brought into practical connection with.

Practical relation with a thing or affair.