handsel

v. give a gift; give a cash deposit; inaugurate, use for the first time

n. inaugural gift; gift given for good luck at the start of something (particularly at new year); first act of using any thing; first payment for something, first installment; first money taken in by a new business; earnest money; foretaste

Handsel Monday is the first Monday of the year, particularly as used to be celebrated in Scotland and northern England. Among the rural population of Scotland, Auld Hansel Monday, is traditionally celebrated on the first Monday after the 12th of January.The "handsel" refers to small tips and gifts of money that it was customary to give at the beginning of the first working week of a new year. In this respect it is somewhat similar to Boxing Day. If the handsel was a physical object rather than money, tradition said that the object could not be sharp, or it would "cut" the relationship between the giver and the recipient.
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(n.)
To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.
  

(n.)
To give a handsel to.
  

(n.)
Price; payment.
  

(n.)
A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc.
  

n.
بوہني, عطيہ, اوليں

handsel /'hænsəl/ (hansel) /'hænsəl/
danh từ quà năm mới, tiền mở hàng (năm mới); quà mừng (vào một dịp gì mới...) tiền bán mở hàng (đem lại sự may mắn, đắt khách suốt ngày) tiền đặt cọc, tiền bảo đảm sự nếm trước, sự hưởng trước ngoại động từ mở hàng (nhân dịp năm mới), tặng quà năm mới mở đầu; mua mở hàng thử lần đầu tiên, dùng lần đầu tiên
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