1) Good-luck gift
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inaugural gift; first installment or payment
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• (n.) To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally. • (n.) To give a handsel to. • (n.) Price; payment. • (n.) 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 re...
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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 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 w...
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Hand'sel transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Handseled or
Handselled (hănd'sĕld);
present participle & verbal noun Handseling or
Handselling .] [ Written also
hansel .] [ OE
handsellen ,...
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Hand'sel (hănd'sĕl) noun [ Written also hansel .] [ Middle English handsal , hansal , hansel , Anglo-Saxon handselen a giving into hands, or more probably from Icelandic handsal ; hand hand + sal sale, bargain; akin to Anglo-Saxon
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