Handsel ::
Handsel (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..