HANDSEL

Definitions: HANDSEL

HANDSEL

Noun

1. To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.

2. To give a handsel to.

3. Price; payment.

4. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "HANDSEL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

"HANDSEL" is a common misspelling or typo for: Handles, Handset.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Beginning	Handsel; take the first step, lay the first stone, cut the first turf; break ground, break the ice, break cover; pass the Rubicon, cross the Rubicon; open fire, open the ball; ventilate, air; undertake.
Expenditure	Pay in advance, earnest, handsel, deposit, installment.
Giving	Bribe, bait, ground bait; peace offering, handsel; boodle, graft, grease;blat.
Security	Stake, deposit, earnest, handsel, caution.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: HANDSEL

English words defined with "HANDSEL": Handsel Monday, Handseled, Handseling, Handselling, Hansel. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Canadian Christmas Book: a Handsel from Our Victorian Past (reference) Fergusson : a bi-centenary handsel : seventeen poems (reference) Handsel and Gretel (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "HANDSEL": Handsel Monday. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "HANDSEL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		parë sefte, pagesa e parë, përvojë e parë, dhuratë (benevolence, bestowal, bounty, contribution, endowment, fairing, Favor, favour, gift, grant, oblation, offering, premium, present, presentation, testimonial, token). (various references)

Bulgarian		сефтосвам, сефте, капаро (earnest, fine), новогодишен подарък, започвам (begin, come in, commence, enter, enter on, fall to, get under way, initiate, institute, jump off, kick off, lead, lead off, open, preface, premise, roll, set in, set out on, set up, settle in, start off, start up, take off, tee off, teethe, trigger), подарък за късмет, подарък за кадем, депозит (deposit, earnest), давам капаро (deposit), давам подарък за късмет. (various references)

Czech		zahájit (begin, commence, go off, inaugurate, Initialize, initiate, introduce, launch, lead off, preface, start). (various references)

Greek		δώρο κατά τα εγκαίνια. (various references)

Hungarian		újévkor megajándékoz, újévi ajándék. (various references)

Italian		dono di capodanno (Hansel). (various references)

Manx		yeearlys (deposit), jannoo ymmyd toshiaght, goaill toshiaght er (commence, enter on, go ahead), eearlys (drink money, drink money tip, earnest, imprest), cur yeearlys da. (various references)

Pig Latin		andselhay.(various references)

Portuguese		sinal (alarm, Beck, character, denotation, denotement, deposit, gesture, guide, Hansel, impress, imprint, impulse, index, indication, mark, marking, note, Ober phenomenon, pledge, rubber stamp, scar, seal, sign, signal, signature, spot, stamp, symbol, symptom, tincture, token, trace, track, vestige, waveform, waveshape), sedimento (bottom, deposit, deposited sediment, draft, dreggy, dregs, foots, grain, Grout, Hansel, hold one's ground, sediment, sedimentation, silt, slime, sludge), prender (apprehend, arrest, attract, bind, bond, cage, capture, clip, confine, coop, cop, detain, drop behind, embay, fasten, gaol, get fast, gift shop, grapple, hoop, immobilize, incarceration, jail, jug, kennel, knit, lag, linkage, lock in, mewl, nab, pin, prison, quod, run in, secure, seize, shut, snaffle bit, take, take up, to apprehend, to arrest, to hang-up, to lodge, to seize), originar (begin, cause, create, fatherhood, inchoate, make, occasion, originate, procreate, provoke, raise, start), não toque! (do one's best), jazigo (charnelhouse, deposit, hap, tombstone, vault), iniciar (begin, commence, inductance, initiate, introduce, launch, lead off, open, originate, set off, set to, start, strike up, to ignite, to inflame), garantia (assertion, assurance, bail, caution, chit, collateral, collateral investment, collateral security, contention, contract involving a guarantee, contract of guarantee, contract of guaranty, deed of contract, deposit, earnest, Gage, guarantee, guarantee (security contexts), guarantee agreement, guaranty, guard, Hansel, lien, palladium, pawn, pledge, pledged share of stock, safe conduct, safeguard, sea letter, security, sponsion, voucher, warrant, warranty, word), depósito (bailment, caking, crud, crud deposits, deposit, deposition, depository, depot, down payment, dreg, drop crater, droplet impaction, font, foots, garner, gas reservoir, Hansel, lodging allowance, magazine, outhouse, payment on account, point deposit, precipitate, reservoir, sediment, sedimentation, sludge, spray coating, spray deposit, stack, staging area, stockroom, storage, storage house, store, storehouse, storeroom, tank, train depot, warehouse, yard), dar (accord, administer, afford, allow, confer, deal, deliver, detur, furnish, gift, give, give in, hand, impart, infliction, provide, render, supply, to chip, to dibble and dabble, to give, yield), começar (begin, come on, commence, get around, go, inchoate, initiate, kick out, lead off, open, originate, set in, set off, set to, start, strike up, tee off), causar (activate, beget, cause, cause to take place, generate, give rise to, inchoative, induce, let, motivate, motive, on occasion, operate, originate, provoke, put, rattle, start), camada (bed, bed plane, bedding, bedding plane, coat, coating, couch, daub, deposit, Hansel, lay, layer, piece, plane of stratification, ply, reef, seam, sheet, stratification plane, stratum, streak, tier). (various references)

Romanian		saftea, primul dar, presimţire (divination, hunch, misgiving, presentiment), inaugura printr-un dar, face un dar, da cuiva arvunã, arvunã (advance, bounty, earnest), amanet (guarantee, guaranty, mortgage, pawn), încerca primul. (various references)

Russian		задаток (cedent, deposit, down payment, earnest, earnest money), предвкушение (anticipation, foretaste), почин (initiative, send off), дарить (bestow, donate, give, give away, grant, present, remember). (various references)

Scottish		sainnseal (a handsel). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pokloniti (bestow, donate, present), poklon (bounty, dole, donative, gift, handout, obeisance, offering, present). (various references)

Spanish		obsequiar (give away, Hansel). (various references)

Turkish		uğur hediyesi (Hansel), siftah (first sale of the day, Hansel), pey akçesi (earnest money, Hansel, retainer), ilk taksit, şans hediyesi. (various references)

Ukranian		обновити, почати (broach, inchoate), почин, подарунок (bestowal, gift, present, presentation), добра ознака (auspice), дарувати (bestow, confer, donate, entail, gift, give, grant, present). (various references)

Vietnamese		tiền bảo đảm sự nếm trước (hansel), sự hưởng trước (hansel), qu� năm mới (hansel). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "HANDSEL": handseled, handseling, handselled, handselling, handsels. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: handles.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-l-n-s"
	-1 letter: elands, handle, hansel, ladens, lashed, naleds, sendal, shaled.
	-2 letters: ashed, ashen, dahls, dales, deals, deans, deash, dhals, eland, elans, hades, haled, hales, hands, hanse, heads, heals, laden, lades, lands, lanes, lased, leads, leans, leash, lends, naled, sadhe, saned, sedan, selah, shade, shale, sheal, shend.
	-3 letters: ales, ands, anes, dahl, dahs, dale, dals, dash, deal, dean, dels, dens, dhal, edhs, elan, elds, ends, hade, haed, haen, haes, hale, hand, head, heal, held, hens, lade, lads, land, lane, lase, lash, lead, lean, leas, lend, lens, sade, sale, sand, sane, seal, send, shad, shea, shed, sled, sned.
	-4 letters: ads, ale, als, and, ane, ash, dah, dal, del, den, edh, eds, eld, els, end, ens, had, hae, has, hen, hes, lad, las, lea, led, nae, nah, sad, sae, sal, sea, sel, sen, sha, she.
	-5 letters: ad, ae, ah, al, an, as, de, ed, eh, el, en, es, ha, he, la, na, ne, sh.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-l-n-s"
	+1 letter: handlers, handless, handsels, hanseled, shetland, unlashed.
	+2 letters: chandlers, handbells, handhelds, handseled, hanselled, headlands, headlines, homelands, longheads, lunkheads, mishandle, nailheads, planished, rehandles, shetlands, unleashed.
	+3 letters: adhesional, benchlands, blandished, blandisher, blandishes, candlefish, chandelles, chlordanes, decathlons, disenthral, enchiladas, handlebars, handleless, handseling, handselled, handsomely, handwheels, headliners, heartlands, heathlands, languished, manhandles, mishandled, mishandles, panhandles, philanders, sphenoidal, unshackled.
	+4 letters: blandishers, chandeliers, chandleries, disenthrall, disenthrals, fatherlands, handselling, heulandites, highlanders, hinterlands, hollandaise, hydroplanes, landholders, lanthanides, motherlands, overhandles, panhandlers, stickhandle, unabashedly, unashamedly.
	+5 letters: blackhanders, blandishment, candlefishes, candlelights, chalcedonies, dilettantish, diminishable, disenthralls, dishonorable, headlessness, hollandaises, housecleaned, hydralazines, knuckleheads, malnourished, mischanneled, monadelphous, neanderthals, philanderers, slaveholding, stickhandled, stickhandler, stickhandles, stranglehold, stringhalted, thunderclaps, unhandsomely.
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