Retail

To sell in small quantities.i To sell by small parcels or quantities, and not in the gross; as, to sell half a pint of alcohol at once.2 Retail dealer. One who sells by small quantities, to suit customers, articles which are bought in larger amounts.' A "wholesale dealer" sells in gross, not by the small quantity or parcel.* See Merchant. To constitute the offense of carrying on the business of a retail liquor dealer without having paid the special tax required by United States law, the accused must have procured the liquor sold with intent to retail it, or, having it on hand, formed the intent to retail it,' and carried out that intent by one or more acts.* Gratuitously distributing ardent spirits at a public, gaming-table does not constitute the keeper of the table a retailer of spirituous liquors."