Handleable
(Han"dle*a*ble) a. Capable of being handled.
Handless
(Hand"less) a. Without a hand. Shak.
Handling
(Han"dling) n. [AS. handlung.]
1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See
Handle, v. t.
The heavens and your fair handling
Have made you master of the field this day.
Spenser. 2. (Drawing, Painting, etc.) The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch. Fairholt.
Handmade
(Hand"made`) a. Manufactured by hand; as, handmade shoes.
Handmaid
(Hand"maid` Hand"maiden) n. A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
Handsaw
(Hand"saw`) (-s&add`) n. A saw used with one hand.
Handsel
(Hand"sel) n. [Written also hansel.] [OE. handsal, hansal, hansel, AS. handselena giving
into hands, or more prob. fr. Icel. handsal; hand hand + sal sale, bargain; akin to AS. sellan to give,
deliver. See Sell, Sale. ]
1. A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the
first of a series, and regarded as an omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money
received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first
present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc.
Their first good handsel of breath in this world.
Fuller.
Our present tears here, not our present laughter,
Are but the handsels of our joys hereafter.
Herrick. 2. Price; payment. [Obs.] Spenser.
Handsel Monday, the first Monday of the new year, when handsels or presents are given to servants,
children, etc.
Handsel
(Hand"sel), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Handseled or Handselled (hand"seld); p. pr. & vb. n. Handseling
or Handselling.] [Written also hansel.] [OE handsellen, hansellen; cf. Icel. hadsala, handselja. See
Handsel, n.]
1. To give a handsel to.
2. To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.
No contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath handseled it with prayer.
Fuller.
