handsel

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A lucky omen.
2. isim A gift given at New Year, or at the start of some enterprise or new situation, meant to ensure good luck.

   “their first good handsel of breath in this world”

3. isim Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series.

   “That whoso hardy hand on her doth lay , It dearly shall abye and death for handsel pay”

4. fiil To give a handsel to.

   “She would leave a gold guinea to hansel the baby.”

5. fiil To inaugurate by means of some ceremony; to break in.
6. fiil To use or do for the first time, especially so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.

   “Indeed there is no contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath hanselled it with prayer.”