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e Handle, v. t. The heavens and your fair handling Have made you master of the field this day. Spenser.

oney taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc. Their first good handsel of breath in this world. Fuller. Our present tears here, not our present laughter, Are but the handsels of our joys hereafter. Herrick.

c) to lounge around a particular place; as, teenageers tend to hang out at the mall these days -- To hang over.

Maccabees i. 58, iv. 59). The feast, which is mentioned in John x. 22, is held for eight days (beginning with the 25th day of Kislev, corresponding to December), and is celebrated everywhere, chiefly as a festival of lights, by the Jews.

the lessons from the Nebiim (or Prophets) read in the Jewish synagogue on Sabbaths, feast days, fasts, and the ninth of Ab, at the end of the service, after the parashoth, or lessons from the Law. Such a practice is evidenced in Luke iv.17 and Acts xiii.15.

To usher in; to be a harbinger of. "Thus did the star of religious freedom harbinger the day." Bancroft.

s made by the moon's orbit with the horizon, it rises nearly at the same hour for several days. -- Harvest mouse (Zoöl.), a very small European field mouse (Mus minutus). It builds a globular nest on the stems of wheat and other plants. -- Harvest queen, an image pepresenting Ceres, formerly carried about on the last…

ting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. Unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Shak.

report or by letter. I have heard, sir, of such a man. Shak. I must hear from thee every day in the hour. Shak. To hear ill, to be blamed. [Obs.] Not only within his own camp, but also now at Rome, he heard ill for his temporizing and slow proceedings. Holland. -- To hear well, to be praised. [Obs.]…

cult. The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days. Atterbury.

tars appear; -- often used in the plural in this sense. I never saw the heavens so dim by day. Shak. When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven. D. Webster.

iot wheels, that they drave them heavily. Ex. xiv. 25. Why looks your grace so heavily to-day Shak.

A week; a period of seven days. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly.

In periods of seven days; weekly. Lowell.

ase of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight.

A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.

Pertaining to yesterday. [Obs.] See Yester, a. Ld. Lytton.

A term of six days. Good.

A measure of land, common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres. [Written also hyde.]