handful
handful is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A hand's breadth; four inches. [Obs.] Knap the tongs together about a handful from the bottom. Bacon.
- 2.A small quantity. This handful of men were tied to very hard duty. Fuller. To have one's handful, to have one's hands full; to have all one can do. [Obs.] They had their handful to defend themselves from firing. Sir. W. Raleigh.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- and
- any
- between
- cull
- decimate
- decimation
- diminish
- eliminate
- elimination
- eradication
- exiguity
- exiguous
- far
- few
- fewness
- hardly
- here
- infrequency
- infrequent
- maniple
- minority
- number
- paucity
- quantity
- rare
- rarely
- rarity
- reduce
- reduction
- render
- sarculation
- scant
- scanty
- scarcely
- scattered
- small
- spotty
- the
- there
- thin
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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