Word Meanings - MISHANDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.
Related words: (words related to MISHANDLE)
- MALTREATMENT
Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse. - HANDLESS
Without a hand. Shak. - MALTREAT
To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly. - 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. - WRONGLY
In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak. - 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.