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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Handle \Han"dle\ (h[a^]n"d'l), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Handled} (-d'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Handling} (-dl[i^]ng).] [OE. handlen, AS. handlian; akin to D. handelen to trade, G. handeln. See {Hand}.]
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 manage skillfully.
That fellow handles his bow like a crowkeeper. --Shak.
3. To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands.
The hardness of the winters forces the breeders to house and handle their colts six months every year. --Sir W. Temple.
4. To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell; as, a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock.
5. To deal with; to make a business of.
They that handle the law knew me not. --Jer. ii. 8.
6. To treat; to use, well or ill.
How wert thou handled being prisoner? --Shak.
7. To manage; to control; to practice skill upon.
You shall see how I will handle her. --Shak.
8. To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection.
We will handle what persons are apt to envy others. --Bacon.
{To handle without gloves}. See under {Glove}. [Colloq.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Handling \Han"dling\ (h[a^]n"dl[i^]ng), noun [AS. handlung.]
1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See {Handle}, verb (used with an object)
The heavens and your fair handling Have made you master of the field this day. --Spenser.
2. (Drawing, Painting, etc.) The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch. --Fairholt.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Manhandle \Man*han"dle\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {-handled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {-handling}.]
1. To move, or manage, by human force without mechanical aid; as, to manhandle a cannon. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. To handle roughly; as, the captive was manhandled. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
handling
noun
1: manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something
2: the action of touching with the hands or the skillful use of the hands [syn: {manipulation}]
3: the management of someone or something; "the handling of prisoners"; "the treatment of water sewage"; "the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system" [syn: {treatment}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "handling": accomplishment, achievement, action, administration, agency, authority, care, caressing, charge, command, commission, completion, conduct, control, custodianship, direction, discharge, dispatch, driving, effectuation, employment, enactment, execution, exercise, exploitation, feeling, fingering, friction, frottage, functioning, governance, government, guidance, husbandry, implementation, intendance, lead, leading, management, managery, managing, manipulation, means of dealing, occupation, operancy, operation, ordering, oversight, palpation, performance, performing, perpetration, petting, pilotage, practice, pressure, regulation, responsibility, rubbing, running, steerage, steering, stewardship, stroking, superintendence, superintendency, supervision, the conn, the helm, the wheel, touching, transaction, treatment, usage, using, utilization, work, working, workings
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