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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..

Bear :: Bear (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.

Cephalotome :: Cephalotome (n.) An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery..

Absolution :: Absolution (n.) Delivery, in speech..

Cockade :: Cockade (n.) A badge, usually in the form of a rosette, or knot, and generally worn upon the hat; -- used as an indication of military or naval service, or party allegiance, and in England as a part of the livery to indicate that the wearer is the servant of a military or naval officer..

Retainer :: Retainer (n.) Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery..

Delivery :: Delivery (n.) The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery..

Bailment :: Bailment (n.) A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed..

Call :: Call (n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on..

Spotted :: Spot (n.) Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery..

Natural :: Natural (a.) Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc..

Delivery :: Delivery (n.) The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery..

Send :: Send (v. t.) To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message..

Investiture :: Investiture (n.) Livery of seizin.

Aleconner :: Aleconner (n.) Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.].

Craniotomy :: Craniotomy (n.) The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery..

Livery :: Livery (n.) The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.

Hypothecate :: Hypothecate (v. t.) To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry..

Liveried :: Liveried (a.) Wearing a livery. See Livery, 3..

Livery :: Livery (n.) The writ by which possession is obtained.

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