Word Meanings - BETHUMB - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books. Poe.
Related words: (words related to BETHUMB)
- HANDLING
The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch. Fairholt. (more info) 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 - BOOKSELLING
The employment of selling books. - BOOKSTAND
1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference. - HANDLESS
Without a hand. Shak. - BOOKSHOP
A bookseller's shop. - BOOKSHELF
A shelf to hold books. - BOOKSELLER
One who sells books. - BOOKSTORE
A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop. - HANDLE
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. Luke xxiv. 39. About his altar, handling holy things. Milton. 2. To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to - HANDLEABLE
Capable of being handled. - BOOKSTALL
A stall or stand where books are sold. - CHANDLER
of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See 1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay. 2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by - PANHANDLE STATE
West Virginia; -- a nickname. - CHANDLERY
Commodities sold by a chandler. - PANHANDLE
The handle of a pan; hence, fig., any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan; as, the panhandle of West Virginia, Texas, or Idaho. - OVERHANDLE
To handle, or use, too much; to mention too often. Shak. - MISHANDLE
To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat. - MANHANDLE
1. To move, or manage, by human force without mechanical aid; as, to manhandle a cannon. 2. To handle roughly; as, the captive was manhandled. - CHANDLERLY
Like a chandler; in a petty way. Milton.