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handful Noun pl -fuls 1. the amount that can be held in the hand 2. a small number: a handful of parents 3. Informal a person or animal that is difficult to control: as a child she was a real handful Handful a quantity that would fill a hand; a small company or number—Wilkes. Examples: handful of days, 1633; of men, 1525; of straw, 1489; of wit, 1536; of words, 1876.
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The spectacle was often repeated with great applause, till on one occasion a courtier, bent on mischief, took from his pocket a handful of nuts and threw them upon the stage. He noted the extreme care which the woman took that none of the matter should touch her hands, and once when a particle spattered upon one of her fingers he saw her plunge the member into a vessel of water and quickly rub the tiny stain away with a handful of leaves. Jingle, jingle, went the shillings, as handful after handful was thrown in, till, plump and ponderous as she was, they fairly weighed the young lady from the floor. |
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