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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.

 

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