English dictionary
handsel
/'h/&/ns/@/l/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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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.
Source: webster1913
verb
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To give a handsel to.
Source: webster1913