单词：handsels
[经] 定金, 保证金
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.
n. Price; payment.
n. To give a handsel to.
n. To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make
fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.
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