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/hˈændlɪŋ/ /hˈændəlɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Handle v. t. (past & past part. handled; pres. part. handling)

1.

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand. "Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh." "About his altar, handling holy things."

2.

To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to manage skillfully. "That fellow handles his bow like a crowkeeper."

3.

To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands. "The hardness of the winters forces the breeders to house and handle their colts six months every year."

4.

To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock.

5.

To deal with; to make a business of. "They that handle the law knew me not."

6.

To treat; to use, well or ill. "How wert thou handled being prisoner?"

7.

To manage; to control; to practice skill upon. "You shall see how I will handle her."

8.

To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection. "We will handle what persons are apt to envy others."

To handle without gloves. See under Glove. (Colloq.)

Handle v. i. To use the hands. "They have hands, but they handle not."

noun

Handling n.

1.

A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t. "The heavens and your fair handling Have made you master of the field this day."

2.

(Drawing, Painting, etc.) The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch.

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Etymology of 'Handling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Handling" Quotes from Famous Books

... physical or moral; his other faculties become extinct, and there results a degeneracy in the individual man. That one has made only the eighteenth part of a pin is a sad account to give of one's self: but let no one imagine that it is the workingman who spends his life in handling a file or a hammer that alone degenerates in this way from the dignity of his nature; it is the same with the man whose position leads him to exercise the most subtle faculties of his mind. . . On the whole, it may be said that the separation of tasks ...

— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon

... Museum) can scarcely imagine the strange beauty of their appearance. The peculiar W-shaped mouth, the incessant nictitation of the sinister eyelid, the naughty little twinkle in the eye itself, the glistening glory of the arms, each terminating in a fleshy digitated Handling Machine resembling more than anything else a Number 6 glove inflated with air (these members, by the way, have since been named rather aptly by that distinguished anatomist and original dog, Professor ...

— The War of the Wenuses • C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas

... them on what he called modern lines, and when they resisted him he talked very vigorously for a time of organising a rival enterprise. That was a very magnificent idea indeed in its way; it would have given a tremendous advantage in the handling of innumerable specialties and indeed I scarcely know how far it would not have put the medical profession in our grip. It still amazes me—I shall die amazed—that such a thing can be possible in the modern state. ...

— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... quarrel over the location of a lectern; and La Secchia Rapita (stolen bucket), a famous Italian satire on the petty causes of the endless Italian wars. Pope, however, went far ahead of his masters in style and in delicacy of handling a mock-heroic theme, and during his lifetime the Rape of the Lock was considered as the greatest poem of its kind in all literature. The poem is still well worth reading; for as an expression of the artificial life of the age—of ...

— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long

... seemed to be especially well pleased with our work today," he remarked, "and told us that taken all in all we made as lively and hustling a lot of youngsters as he had ever had the pleasure of handling. He even went on to say that if we worked as well in the Marshall game we would carry off the prize as sure as two and three make five. And let me tell you, after hearing those inspiring words we played better than ever the next round, and had old Joe beaming with joy. I honestly believe ...

— Jack Winters' Gridiron Chums • Mark Overton

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