[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

handle \han"dle\ ha^n"d'l, v. t. imp.  p. p. handled
   -d'ld; p. pr.  vb. n. handling -dli^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.
      1913 webster

            handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh.
                                                  --luke xxiv.
                                                  39.
      1913 webster

            about his altar, handling holy things. --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. to manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield;
      often, to manage skillfully.
      1913 webster

            that fellow handles his bow like a crowkeeper.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of,
      with the hands.
      1913 webster

            the hardness of the winters forces the breeders to
            house and handle their colts six months every year.
                                                  --sir w.
                                                  temple.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   5. to deal with; to make a business of.
      1913 webster

            they that handle the law knew me not. --jer. ii. 8.
      1913 webster

   6. to treat; to use, well or ill.
      1913 webster

            how wert thou handled being prisoner? --shak.
      1913 webster

   7. to manage; to control; to practice skill upon.
      1913 webster

            you shall see how i will handle her.  --shak.
      1913 webster

   8. to use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a
      theme, an argument, or an objection.
      1913 webster

            we will handle what persons are apt to envy others.
                                                  --bacon.
      1913 webster

   to handle without gloves. see under glove. colloq.
      1913 webster
see also:
handled handling hand to handle without gloves glove 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

handling \han"dling\ ha^n"dli^ng, n. as. handlung.
   1. a touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the
      hand or hands, or as with the hands. see handle, v. t.
      1913 webster

            the heavens and your fair handling
            have made you master of the field this day.
                                                  --spenser.
      1913 webster

   2. drawing, painting, etc. the mode of using the pencil or
      brush, etc.; style of touch. --fairholt.
      1913 webster
see also:
handle 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

manhandle \manhan"dle\, v. t. 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.
see also:
-handled -handling 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

handling
     n 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
see also:
manipulation treatment 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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