Vocabulary : Handfast to Handicapper

Handfast : Hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping. ;; Contract; specifically, espousal. ;; Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands. ;; To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage. ;; Strong; steadfast.
Handfasted : of Handfast
Handfasting : of Handfast
Handfastly : In a handfast or publicly pledged manner.
Handfish : The frogfish.

Handful : As much as the hand will grasp or contain. ;; A hand's breadth; four inches. ;; A small quantity.
Hand-hole : A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc.
Handicap : An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like. ;; A race, for horses or men, or any contest of agility, strength, or skill, in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors. ;; An old game at cards. ;; To encumber with a handicap in any contest; hence, in general, to place at disadvantage; as, the candidate was heavily handicapped.
Handicapped : of Handicap
Handicapper : One who determines the conditions of a handicap.

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