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.