Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Handseling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Handsel \Hand"sel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Handseled} or
{Handseled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Handseling} or {Handselling}.]
[Written also hansel.] [OE handsellen, hansellen; cf. Icel.
hadsala, handselja. See {Handsel}, n.]
1. To give a handsel to.
2. To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make
fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.
No contrivance of our body, but some good man in
Scripture hath handseled it with prayer. --Fuller.
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