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A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft. Addison.

A man skilled or employed in handcraft. Bacon.

In a handy manner; skillfully; conveniently.

To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully. That fellow handles his bow like a crowkeeper. Shak.

Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons. [Obs.] That they [engines of war] be both easy to be carried and handsome to be moved and turned about. Robynson (Utopia). For a thief it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented for him. Spenser.

Skillful in using the hand; dexterous; ready; adroit. "Each is handy in his way." Dryden.

ed be they that build Their hopes on haps. Sir P. Sidney. Loving goes by haps: Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Shak.

One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a musical composer.

To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon. Thou 'harped my fear aright. Shak.

A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun. Harpoon fork, a kind of hayfork, consisting of bar with hinged barbs at one end a loop for a rope…

Practice; skill. [Obs.] Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. Chaucer.

ies. Dryden. A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. Shak.

One skilled in the Greek language and literature; as, the critical Hellenist.

Skillful; dexterous; clever. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.

A writer of hierograms; also, one skilled in hieroglyphics. Greenhill.

Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. [Obs.] Pope.

The killing of one human being by another.

A maker or vender of clocks and watches; one skilled in horology.

A rider on horseback; one skilled in the management of horses; a mounted man.