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or advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like.

One who determines the conditions of a handicap.

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

A man skilled or employed in handcraft. Bacon.

In a handy manner; skillfully; conveniently.

The quality or state of being handy.

See Andrion. [Obs.]

Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally. The firmament showeth his handiwork. Ps. xix. 1.

A handkerchief. [Obs. or Colloq.] Chapman (1654). Shak.

piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face or hands.

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand. Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh. Luke xxiv. 39. About his altar, handling holy things. Milton.

Capable of being handled.

Without a hand. Shak.

A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t. The heavens and your fair handling Have made you master of the field this day. Spenser.

Manufactured by hand; as, handmade shoes.

A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.

A saw used with one hand.

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 firs…

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.

In a handsome manner.