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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.

The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.

A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.

A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.

Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted.

The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.

Performed by the hand. [Obs.] To draw up and come to handy strokes. Milton.

A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.

A fight with the hands; boxing. "Pollux loves handyfights." B. Jonson.

Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. Hudibras.

A blow with the hand.

See Handiwork.

n to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sign; to hang out a banner.

A dependent; a hanger-on; -- so called in contempt. B. Jonson.

The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula); -- so called because its nest is suspended from the limb of a tree. See Baltimore oriole.