handsel
/'hænsәl/
📖 中文释义
- n. 贺礼, 彩金
- [经] 定金, 保证金
🔗 释义中的汉语词
🧩 词形变化
复数 handsels
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n. 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 first
- present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc.
- n. Price; payment.
- n. To give a handsel to.
- n. To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make
- fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.