"handsel" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "Handsel Monday"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "the first Monday of the new year"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "when handsels"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "presents are given to servants"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "children"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "handsell"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English handsell",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "hanselle"
      },
      "expansion": "hanselle",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "handselen"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English handselen",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "handsal",
        "lit": "hand-gift"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse handsal (literally “hand-gift”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sco",
        "2": "hansel"
      },
      "expansion": "Scots hansel",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "handsel"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish handsel",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English handsell, hanselle, from Old English handselen and/or Old Norse handsal (literally “hand-gift”). Cognate with Scots hansel, Danish handsel.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "handsels",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "handsel (plural handsels)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A lucky omen."
      ],
      "id": "en-handsel-en-noun-ZcTS-H74",
      "links": [
        [
          "omen",
          "omen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A lucky omen."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides",
          "text": "Our present tears here, not our present laughter, / Are but the handsels of our joys hereafter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A gift given at New Year, or at the start of some enterprise or new situation, meant to ensure good luck."
      ],
      "id": "en-handsel-en-noun-ZlinZxxV",
      "links": [
        [
          "New Year",
          "New Year"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "gift given at New Year",
          "word": "uudenvuodenlahja"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "gift given at New Year",
          "word": "nyårspresent"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1612, Joseph Hall, Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old Testament",
          "text": "\"I see the first handsel that God gives them on their voyage to the Land of Promise; thirst and bitterness.\"\n(From Contemplations, Book Five, Contemplation 1, The Waters of Marah (Found in volume 1 of The Works of Joseph\nHall, edited by Peter Hall, published by Talboys, Oxford, 1837, page 88))",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series."
      ],
      "id": "en-handsel-en-noun-f7IFspHI",
      "links": [
        [
          "Price",
          "price"
        ],
        [
          "payment",
          "payment"
        ],
        [
          "installment",
          "installment"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 94",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "kaparo",
          "sense": "payment; especially the first installment of a series.",
          "word": "капаро"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 3 94",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "sense": "payment; especially the first installment of a series.",
          "word": "دشت"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhænd.səl/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhæn.səl/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ændsəl"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ænsəl"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "hansel"
    }
  ],
  "word": "handsel"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "unhandseled"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "enm",
        "3": "handsell"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English handsell",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "hanselle"
      },
      "expansion": "hanselle",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "handselen"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English handselen",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "handsal",
        "lit": "hand-gift"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse handsal (literally “hand-gift”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sco",
        "2": "hansel"
      },
      "expansion": "Scots hansel",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "handsel"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish handsel",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English handsell, hanselle, from Old English handselen and/or Old Norse handsal (literally “hand-gift”). Cognate with Scots hansel, Danish handsel.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "handsels",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "handselling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "handseling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "handselled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "handselled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "handseled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "handseled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++",
        "past2": "handseled",
        "pres_ptc2": "handseling"
      },
      "expansion": "handsel (third-person singular simple present handsels, present participle handselling or handseling, simple past and past participle handselled or handseled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 55",
          "text": "She would leave a gold guinea to hansel the baby.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To give a handsel to."
      ],
      "id": "en-handsel-en-verb-ZgC7u8t8",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To give a handsel to."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "3 30 7 2 38 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": ", Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.86",
          "text": "And it is better undecently to faile in hanseling the nuptiall bed, full of agitation and fits, by waiting for some or other fitter occasion, and more private opportunitie, lest sudden and alarmed, than to fall into a perpetuall miserie, by apprehending an astonishment and desperation of the first refusall."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To inaugurate by means of some ceremony; to break in."
      ],
      "id": "en-handsel-en-verb-QppYoITR",
      "links": [
        [
          "inaugurate",
          "inaugurate"
        ],
        [
          "ceremony",
          "ceremony"
        ],
        [
          "break in",
          "break in"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To inaugurate by means of some ceremony; to break in."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1647, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Worse Times",
          "text": "Indeed there is no contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath hanselled it with prayer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Michael Brodsky, ***, Four Walls Eight Windows, page 38",
          "text": "[…]the success of the one did not handsel usurpation[…]of the other's.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To use or do for the first time, especially so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally."
      ],
      "id": "en-handsel-en-verb-5nyezYt2",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To use or do for the first time, especially so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhænd.səl/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhæn.səl/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ændsəl"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ænsəl"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "hansel"
    }
  ],
  "word": "handsel"
}

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "handsal"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse handsal",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "hånd"
      },
      "expansion": "hånd",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "salg"
      },
      "expansion": "salg",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Old Norse handsal, see hånd and salg.",
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    {
      "args": {
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        "10": "handsel",
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        "13": "",
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        "3": "",
        "4": "{{{1}}}",
        "5": "",
        "6": "{{{sg-def-2}}}",
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        "8": "",
        "9": "",
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        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "handsel",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "handsel",
      "name": "da-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Danish",
  "lang_code": "da",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "da",
          "name": "Finance",
          "orig": "da:Finance",
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          "_dis": "82 18",
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          "name": "Danish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "down payment, security"
      ],
      "id": "en-handsel-da-noun-dfxSoeMF",
      "links": [
        [
          "finance",
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        ],
        [
          "down payment",
          "down payment"
        ],
        [
          "security",
          "security"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, finance) down payment, security"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "a good omen"
      ],
      "id": "en-handsel-da-noun-AhvO6v~J",
      "links": [
        [
          "good",
          "good"
        ],
        [
          "omen",
          "omen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) a good omen"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "handsel"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Danish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Danish lemmas",
    "Danish nouns",
    "Danish terms derived from Old Norse",
    "Danish terms inherited from Old Norse"
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
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        "3": "handsal"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse handsal",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "hånd"
      },
      "expansion": "hånd",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "salg"
      },
      "expansion": "salg",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Old Norse handsal, see hånd and salg.",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "10": "handsel",
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        "g2": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "handsel",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "handsel",
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  "lang_code": "da",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Danish terms with obsolete senses",
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        "down payment, security"
      ],
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          "finance",
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        [
          "down payment",
          "down payment"
        ],
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          "security",
          "security"
        ]
      ],
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        "(obsolete, finance) down payment, security"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Danish terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a good omen"
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        [
          "omen",
          "omen"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) a good omen"
      ],
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        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "handsel"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms derived from Old Norse",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ændsəl",
    "Rhymes:English/ændsəl/2 syllables",
    "Rhymes:English/ænsəl",
    "Rhymes:English/ænsəl/2 syllables"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Handsel Monday"
    },
    {
      "word": "the first Monday of the new year"
    },
    {
      "word": "when handsels"
    },
    {
      "word": "presents are given to servants"
    },
    {
      "word": "children"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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        "3": "handsell"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English handsell",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "hanselle"
      },
      "expansion": "hanselle",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "handselen"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English handselen",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "handsal",
        "lit": "hand-gift"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse handsal (literally “hand-gift”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sco",
        "2": "hansel"
      },
      "expansion": "Scots hansel",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "handsel"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish handsel",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English handsell, hanselle, from Old English handselen and/or Old Norse handsal (literally “hand-gift”). Cognate with Scots hansel, Danish handsel.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "handsels",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
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      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lucky omen."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "omen",
          "omen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A lucky omen."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides",
          "text": "Our present tears here, not our present laughter, / Are but the handsels of our joys hereafter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A gift given at New Year, or at the start of some enterprise or new situation, meant to ensure good luck."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "New Year",
          "New Year"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1612, Joseph Hall, Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old Testament",
          "text": "\"I see the first handsel that God gives them on their voyage to the Land of Promise; thirst and bitterness.\"\n(From Contemplations, Book Five, Contemplation 1, The Waters of Marah (Found in volume 1 of The Works of Joseph\nHall, edited by Peter Hall, published by Talboys, Oxford, 1837, page 88))",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Price",
          "price"
        ],
        [
          "payment",
          "payment"
        ],
        [
          "installment",
          "installment"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhænd.səl/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhæn.səl/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ændsəl"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ænsəl"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hansel"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "gift given at New Year",
      "word": "uudenvuodenlahja"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "gift given at New Year",
      "word": "nyårspresent"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kaparo",
      "sense": "payment; especially the first installment of a series.",
      "word": "капаро"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "payment; especially the first installment of a series.",
      "word": "دشت"
    }
  ],
  "word": "handsel"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms derived from Old Norse",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ændsəl",
    "Rhymes:English/ændsəl/2 syllables",
    "Rhymes:English/ænsəl",
    "Rhymes:English/ænsəl/2 syllables"
  ],
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    {
      "word": "unhandseled"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "handsell"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "hanselle"
      },
      "expansion": "hanselle",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "handselen"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English handselen",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "handsal",
        "lit": "hand-gift"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse handsal (literally “hand-gift”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sco",
        "2": "hansel"
      },
      "expansion": "Scots hansel",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "handsel"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish handsel",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English handsell, hanselle, from Old English handselen and/or Old Norse handsal (literally “hand-gift”). Cognate with Scots hansel, Danish handsel.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "handsels",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "handselling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "handseling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "handselled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "handselled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "handseled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "handseled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 55",
          "text": "She would leave a gold guinea to hansel the baby.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To give a handsel to."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To give a handsel to."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": ", Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.86",
          "text": "And it is better undecently to faile in hanseling the nuptiall bed, full of agitation and fits, by waiting for some or other fitter occasion, and more private opportunitie, lest sudden and alarmed, than to fall into a perpetuall miserie, by apprehending an astonishment and desperation of the first refusall."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To inaugurate by means of some ceremony; to break in."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "inaugurate",
          "inaugurate"
        ],
        [
          "ceremony",
          "ceremony"
        ],
        [
          "break in",
          "break in"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To inaugurate by means of some ceremony; to break in."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1647, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Worse Times",
          "text": "Indeed there is no contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath hanselled it with prayer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Michael Brodsky, ***, Four Walls Eight Windows, page 38",
          "text": "[…]the success of the one did not handsel usurpation[…]of the other's.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To use or do for the first time, especially so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To use or do for the first time, especially so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhænd.səl/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhæn.səl/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ændsəl"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ænsəl"
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "hansel"
    }
  ],
  "word": "handsel"
}