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Definition of Handseling
1. handsel [v] - See also: handsel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handseling
Literary usage of Handseling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott, David Douglas (1894)
"Scottish Regalia Commission, February. handseling of the new house, October.
Accepts offer of Baronetcy, November. ..."
2. The Life of Sir Walter Scott by Gerald Le Grys Norgate (1906)
"... and a " handseling "—Scott refused to call it a housewarming —took place, at
which Scott's old schoolfellows, Lord Melville and Adam Ferguson, ..."
3. Teutonic mythology by Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass (1883)
"... solent/l This handseling of huntsmen and travellers went on long after all
faith in the healing power had evaporated. In Gaul it seems to have kept a ..."
4. The Entail: Or, The Lairds of Grippy by John Galt (1895)
"... known to every one that kens me that I hae a most generous heart—far mair than
e'er he had —and I wouldna part wi' thee without handseling thy knapsack. ..."
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