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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Handsome \Hand"some\ (?; 277), a. [Compar. {Handsomer}; superl. {Handsomest}.] [Hand + -some. It at first meant dexterous; cf D. handzaam dexterous, ready, limber, manageable, and E. handy.] 1. Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons. [Obs.] That they [engines of war] be both easy to be carried and handsome to be moved and turned about --Robynson (Utopia). For a thief it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented for him --Spenser. 2. Agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing appearance or expression; attractive; having symmetry and dignity; comely; -- expressing more than pretty, and less than beautiful; as a handsome man or woman; a handsome garment, house, tree, horse.
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