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Definition of Handsful
1. handful [n] - See also: handful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handsful
Literary usage of Handsful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts: In All the Useful and Domestic Arts by Colin MacKenzie (1854)
"Take the flax in small handsful in the left hand, »pread it flat between the
third and little finger, with the seed end downwards, and the root-end above, ..."
2. The Toilette of Health, Beauty, and Fashion ...: Including the Comforts of by Allen & Ticknor (1834)
"Take penny-royal, sage, and rosemary, four handsful, angelica three handsful;
juniper berries, four ounces : boil these ingredients in a sufficient quantity ..."
3. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"Take three handsful of orange-flowers, three of clove- gillyflowers, three of
damask roses, one of knotted marjoram, one of lemon-thyme, six bay-leaves, ..."
4. The English Art of Cookery, According to the Present Practice: Being a by Richard Briggs (1788)
"TAKE two good handsful of wormwood, aS much carduus, as much rue; four handsful of
... TAKE balm four handsful, ..."
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