Vocabulary : Handle to Handsel

Handle : To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand. ;; To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully. ;; To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands. ;; To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock. ;; To deal with; to make a business of. ;; To treat; to use, well or ill. ;; To manage; to control; to practice skill upon. ;; To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection. ;; To use the hands. ;; That part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc. ;; That of which use is made; the instrument for effecting a purpose; a tool.
Handleable : Capable of being handled.
Handled : of Handle
Handless : Without a hand.
Handling : of Handle ;; A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t. ;; The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch.
Handmade : Manufactured by hand; as, handmade shoes.
Handmaid : Alt. of Handmaiden
Handmaiden : A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
Handsaw : A saw used with one hand.
Handsel : 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 on 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. ;; Price; payment. ;; To give a handsel to. ;; To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.
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