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Japanning: The operation of polishing japanned articles by rubbing them with the hand when they have become dull. 2123 hand, and kerchief.] 1. A piece of cloth, silk, linen, or cotton, carried about the person for the purpose of wiping the face, hands, . "Others held up handkerchiefs in token of sub mi ion."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xvii. 2. A neckcloth, a neckerchief. hăn-dle, *han-del, *handell, *han-dlen, v . t . & i . [A. S. handlian , from hand = hand; Dut. handelen : Icel. höndla ; Dan. handle ; Sw. handla; Ger. handeln.] IMG:content-0955.png:[blocks in formation] "How wert thou handled, being prisoner." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. I., i. 4. 3. To treat of; to deal with; to discourse upon. "The work might in truth be judged brainish, if nothing but amorous humor were handled therein." Drayton: Heroicul Epistles . (To the Reader.) *4. To deal with, to practice. "They that handle the law know me not." Jer . ii. 8. B. In trans.: To feel with the hands; to have the sense of feeling; to be able to work with the hands. "Hands have they, but they handle not." Ps . cxv. 7. hăn-dle, *han-del, *han-dell, *han-dyl, *hon-dle, s . [A. S. handle .] [HANDLE, v.] 1. Lit .: That part of a thing by which it is grasped and held in the hand; in various articles handles are known by specific names. "The shield of old Peleides, which Fame lifts to the skies, Even to the handles ."-Chapman: Homer's Iliad, viii. 2. Fig .: An instrument or means by which anything is done. "He would gladly catch holde of some small handell to kepe hys money fast."-Sir T. More: Works , p. 330. (1) To give a handle : To furnish or supply an occasion, opportunity, or means. "The defense of Vat in i us gave a plausible handle for some censure upon Cicero."- Melmoth : Cicero , bk. ii., let. 17. (Note 5.) (2) A handle to one's name: A title. ( Colloquial . ) hăn'-dle-a-ble, a. [Eng. handle ; -able.] That may or can be handled.