handybook 
handybook (han'di-buk), n. A small book for 
special reference ; a manual ; a handbook. 
Handbooks, or handybnoks, may be designed or used in 
two different ways. Athenaeum, Oct. 20, 1888, p. 522. 
handycuff, . See handicuff. 
handy-dandy (han'di-dan'di), n. [< ME. liumi//- 
dandy; a compound, varied for the rime, of hand 
+ dandle.] 1. A play of children in which some- 
thing, as a pebble or a coin, is shaken between 
the hands of one, while another guesses which 
hand it is retained in. 
See how yon' justice rails upon yon' simple thief. Hark 
in thine ear : Change places, and, handy-dandy, which is 
the justice, which is the thief? Shak., Lear, iv. 6. 
Neither cross and pile, nor ducks and drakes, are quite 
so ancient as handy-dandy. 
Arbuthnot, quoted in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, p. 506. 
Hence 2f. A bribe paid secretly. 
Tho was Wrong a-f ered Wysdome he by-souhte ; 
On men of lawe Wrong lokede and largelich hem profrede. 
And for to haue of here help handy-dandy payede. 
Piers Plowman (C), v. 68. 
handy-fightt (han'di-fit), n. [< hand + fight. 
The y is inserted, as in handyblow. etc.] A 
fight with the fists ; a boxing-match ; a hand- 
to-hand fight. 
Castor his horse, Pollux loves handy-fights. 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. 
handy-framet (han'di-fram), n. [< hand + 
frame. The y is inserted in imitation of handy- 
work, handiwork.'] Handiwork. 
Say, is your god like this, whom you ador'd, 
Or is this god like to your handy-frame ? 
Middleton, Solomon Paraphrased, xvi. 
handygripet (han'di-grip), . [Var. of hand- 
gripe, in imitation of handyblow, etc.] A gripe 
or seizure with the hand ; also, close fighting. 
The mastiffs, charging home, 
To blows and handygripes were come. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, I. iii. 80. 
handylabort (han'di-la'bor), . [< hand + 
labor. The y is inserted iii imitation of handy- 
work, handiwork.] Manual labor; the work of 
one's hands. 
Robert Abbat of Molisime . . . perswaded his owne dis- 
ciples to live with their handylabour, to leave Tithes and 
Oblations unto the Priests that served in the Diocese. 
Holland, tr. of Camden's Britain, ii. 110. 
handy-man (han'di-man), n. A man employed 
to do various kinds of work ; a general-utility 
man ; specifically, a skilled laborer who serves 
as assistant to a mechanic or artisan. 
It [a saying] is often heard among labourers, handy-men, 
and artisans. N. and Q., 7th ser., HI. 614. 
handystroket (han'di-strok), n. [< hand + 
stroke. The y is inserted, as in handyblow.] A 
blow or stroke with the hand ; a handyblow. 
At handie strokes (when they ioyne battell) they are ac- 
counted farre better men then the Russe people. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 487. 
But when we came to handy-strokes, as often 
As I lent blows, so often I gave wounds, 
And every wound a death. 
Beau, and Fl., Laws of Candy, i. 2. 
handyworkt, . See handiwork. 
hane ' (han), c. See hain. 
hane 2 t, An obsolete variant of khan?. 
hang (hang), v. ; pret. and pp. hung or hanged 
(the latter obsolete except in sense 2), ppr. 
hanging. [In mod. E. hang (dial, also hing, 
heng, formerly also hank) are mixed two orig. 
distinct forms: (1) Hang, weak verb (pret. and 
pp. hanged), prop, intr., < ME. hangen, hongen, 
hangien, hongien (pret. hanged, hangede, hong- 
ede, pp. hanged, honged), prop, intr., but also 
tr., < AS. hangian, hongian (pret. hangode, hong- 
ode, pp. *hangod not found), only intr., hang, 
be suspended, depend, = OS. hangon, intr., = 
OFries. hangia, hingia, North Fries, hangen, 
hingen, intr. and tr., = T>. hangen, intr. and 
tr., = MLG. hangen = OHG. hangen, MHG. 
hangen, intr. (of. OHG. MHG. hengen, also 
henken, G. hangen, also henken, tr., hang), = 
Icel. hengja, tr., = Sw. hanga, intr. and tr., 
= Dan. hosnge, intr. and tr. : a secondary 
verb, from the next. (2) Hang (this pres. 
from the pp., or from pres. of preceding), orig. 
strong verb (pret. and pp. hung, the mod. pret. 
being taken from the pp., and this representing 
ME. honge for hongen, hangen), prop, tr., < ME. 
hangen (this pres. as in mod. pres. ; pret. heng, 
hing, pi. hengen, hingen, pp. hangen, hongen, 
honge, ihonge), tr. and intr., < AS. lion (pret. 
heng, pi. hengon, pp. hangen), only tr., = OS. 
"hdhan, only in comp. pp. bi-hangan = OFries. 
hua, tr., = MLG. han = OHG. hahan, tr., MHG. 
haheii, tr. and intr., G. hanyen (pret. hieng, hing, 
pp. gehangen), intr., = Icel. hanga (pret. hekk, 
pp. hanginn), intr., = Goth, hahan (pret. re- 
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dupl. (iis-)haihan,pp. (at-)hahans), strong verb, 
tr., hang, but found in the simple form only in 
the sense of 'cause to hesitate, leave in doubt,' 
in comp. at-hahan, let hang, let down, us-hahan, 
hang (by the neck), also weak verb (pret. ha- 
haida), intr., be attentive, hanker (to hear; cf. 
'hang on one's words'). The AS. han, Goth. 
hahan, etc., are contr. from orig.*Aow/in, which 
agrees in form, as the words, esp. the Goth., 
agree partly in sense, with L. cunctari (a freq. 
form), hesitate, delay, Skt. / gank, hesitate, 
doubt ; but the supposed connection is doubt- 
ful; the lit. and simple meaning 'hang' (intr.) 
would naturally be oldest. The phonetic his- 
tory of hang is similar to that of fang, q. v.] I. 
trans. 1. To fasten or attach so as to be sup- 
ported from above and not from below; sus- 
pend. 
In thy temple I wol my baner honge, 
And alle the arrnes of my compainye. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1552. 
I must go seek some dew-drop here, 
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. 
Shak., M. N. D., it 1. 
All instruments belonging to the Vintage were there 
[in the temple of Bacchus], some of gold, others of slluer, 
hanged up, sacred to Dionysius. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 457. 
The lockes of haire with their skinnes he hanged on a 
line betwixt two trees. Capt. John Smith, Works, I. 145. 
2. To suspend by the neck or by the limbs to 
a gibbet or cross : a mode of capital punish- 
ment. [In this sense hanged is still used both 
as preterit and as past participle, especially in 
legal phraseology.] 
For that Cros, that is in Cypre, is the Cros in the whiche 
Dysmas the gode Theef was honged onne. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 10. 
They're to be hang'd all in a row. 
Johnnie Faa (Child's Ballads, IV. 286). 
Suppose he should have hung himself. B. Jonson. 
That thieves are hanged in England I thought no reason 
why they should not be shot in Otaheite. 
Cook, Voyages, i. 14. 
[Hence used as a colloquial imprecation or minced exple- 
tive : as, hang it all ! 
Your love's enough for me. Money ! hang money ! 
Let me preserve your love. 
Fletcher and Rowley, Maid in the Mill, iii. 2. 
Hang business hang care; let it live and prosper 
among the men. Steele, Lying Lover, L 1. 1 
3. To suspend in such a manner as to allow of 
free motion on the point or points of suspen- 
sion: said of a door, a gate, a window-blind, 
and the like. 
The gates and the chambers they renewed, and hanged 
doors upon them. 1 Mac. iv. 67. 
4. To cover, furnish, or decorate by anything 
suspended or attached : followed by with before 
the object suspended or attached: as, to hang a 
room with paper or lincrusta. 
He is so hung with pikes, halberds, petronels, calivers. 
and muskets, that he looks like a justice-of-peace's hall. 
B. Jonson, Epiccene, iv. 2. 
There's nothing that I cast mine eyes upon, 
But shews both rich and admirable ; all the rooms 
Are hung as if a princess were to dwell here. 
Fletcher, Rule a Wife, i. 6. 
The rooms [at Venice] are generally hung urith gilt lea- 
ther, which they cover on extraordinary occasions with 
tapestry, and hangings of greater value. 
Addison, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bonn), I. 388. 
5. To bend or turn downward ; hold in a droop- 
ing attitude : as, to hang the head. 
An ass is no great statesman in the beasts' common- 
wealth, though he ... hang the lip like a cap-case half 
open. Nash (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 501). 
When I frown, they hang their most dejected heads, 
Like fearful sheep-hounds. 
Fletcher (and another), Sea Voyage, iv. 2. 
The chearful Birds no longer sing, 
Each drops his Head, and hangs his wing. 
Prior, To Cloe Weeping. 
6. To hold in a state of suspense or inaction; 
stop the movement or action of: as, to hang 
a jury. See phrase below. 7. To fasten the 
blade of to the handle at an angle: said of a 
scythe, a hoe, etc. 
Danielwasputtomowing. . . . He complained to his fa- 
ther that his scythe was not hung right. Various attempts 
were made to hang it better, but with no success. His 
father told him at length, he might han'j it to suit him- 
self ; and he therefore hung it upon a tree, and said : 
" There, that's just right." 
Lanman, Daniel Webster, p. 20. 
8. To get fast; catch. [Southern U. S.] 
A little after, Jake hung his toe in a crack of the floor, 
and nearly fell. Georgia Scenes, p. 17. 
To hang a boat, in Canada, to keep a boat (as in oyster- 
dredging) in place without tying by means of a pole thrust 
in the mud, the pole being held in the hand or the boat 
being pressed against it by the tide. To hang a Jury, to 
prevent a jury from finding a verdict, as a juror may do 
hang 
by refusing to agree with the others : generally implying 
an unreasonable or corrupt refusal. To hang down, to 
let fall below the usual r proper position; bow down; de- 
cline : as, to hang tlirn the head. 
Drows'd, and hung their eyelids down. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iii. 2. 
To hang, draw, and quarter, to execute (a condemned 
person)by hanging him To a gibbet, cutting him down while 
still alive, disemboweling, and then cutting the body into 
pieces, which were sometimes sent dispersed to the places 
where the offenses were committed, in attestation of the 
punishment. This savage mode of execution was com- 
mon in the middle ages. In course of time execution- 
ers often mercifully delayed the cutting down till the suf- 
ferer was dead; and the law was finally modified by mak- 
ing the sentence prescribe hanging till dead, and without 
maltreatment of the corpse. To hang fire, to be slow in 
communicating fire through the vent to the charge : said 
of a gun or its projectile; hence, to be irresolute or slow 
in acting. 
Such shots which hang fire ought never to be approached 
until quite a lapse of time. 
Eissler, Mod. High Explosives, p. 166. 
To hang in effigy. See effigy. to bang out. (a) To 
suspend In open view ; display : as, to hang out false colors. 
Hang out our banners on the outer walls. 
Shak., Macbeth, v. 6. 
(b) To suspend in the open air, as washed clothes, to dry. 
The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes. 
Mother Goose rime. 
To hang out the red flag. See red flag, under ftag%. 
To hang up. (a) To suspend, as to something fixed on 
high. 
What heathen would have dar'd 
To strip Jove's statue of his oaken wreath, 
And hang it up in honour of a man ? 
Cowper, Task, vi. 641. 
(b) To hold in suspense ; keep or suffer to remain unde- 
cided : as, to hang up a question in debate. To hang up 
meat, in hunting, to kill game : from thepractice of hang- 
ing up game after it has been killed. [Colloq., U. 8.) To 
hang up one's hat. See han. 
II. in trans. 1 . To be suspended ; be supported 
or held in place, wholly or partly, by something 
above, as a curtain, or at one side, as a door; 
dangle; depend; droop: as, the door Jiangs 
badly ; the folds of her shawl hung gracefully. 
And fyry Phebus ryseth up so brighte, . . . 
And with his stremes dryeth in the greves 
The silver dropes, hongyng on the leeves. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 688. 
In that Tabernacle ben no Wyndowes : but it is alle 
made lighte with Lampes, that hangen before the Sepulcre. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 76. 
His bugle-horn hung by his side, 
All in a wolf-skin baldric tied. 
Scott, L. of L. M., iii. 16. 
2. To be suspended by the neck ; suffer death 
by hanging. 
If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows : for if I hang, 
old Sir John hangs with me. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., it 1. 
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, 
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. 
Pope, R, of the L., iii. 22. 
3. To bend forward or downward ; lean or in- 
cline. 
His neck obliquely o'er his shoulders hung, 
Press' d with the weight of sleep that tames the strong ! 
Pope, Odyssey, ix. 
Heavily hangs the broad sunflower 
Over its grave i' the earth so chilly. 
Tennyson, A Spirit Haunts the Last Year's Bowers. 
San Francisco hangs over the edge of its chiefest bay, 
like the oriole balancing on the crest of his long pocket 
nest. S. Bowles, in Merriam, II. 4. 
Hence 4. To depend; be dependent upon or 
be supported by something else : with on or by : 
as, his life hangs on the judge's decision. 
Thereby hangs a tale. Shak., M. W. of W., L 4. 
Let him retire a while ; there's more hangs by it 
Than you know yet. Fletcher, Loyal Subject, ii. 1. 
5. To hold fast; cling; adhere. 
What though about her speech there hung 
The accents of the mountain tongue ? 
Scott, L. of the L., i. 18. 
The shadow still the same ; 
And on my heavy eyelids 
My anguish hangs like shame. 
Tennyson, Maud, xxvi. 
6. To hover ; impend ; be imminent. 
What dangers at any time are imminent, what evils hang 
over our heads, God doth know and not we. 
Booker, Eccles. Polity, v. 41. 
On the stream the mist still hangs. 
M. Arnold, Empedocles. 
A light breeze seems rather to tremble and hang poised 
than to blow. G. W. Cable, The Century, XXXV. 733. 
7. To be in suspense ; rest uncertainly ; vacil- 
late; waver; hesitate; falter: as, to hang be- 
tween two opinions ; to hang in doubt, or in the 
balance. See phrases below. 
He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest. 
Pope, Essay on Man, ii. 7. 
8. To be held in suspense ; suffer check or de- 
lay. 
The little business which you left in my hands is now 
dispatched ; if it have hung longer than you thought, it 
