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(1):

(n.) To give a handsel to.

(2):

(n.) Price; payment.

(3):

(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.

(4):

(n.) To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Handsel'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​h/handsel.html. 1828.
 
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