Word Meanings - MISHANDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.

MALTREATMENT
Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
HANDLESS
Without a hand. Shak.
MALTREAT
To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.
HANDLE
1. To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand. Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh. Luke xxiv. 39. About his altar, handling holy things. Milton. 2. To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to
HANDLEABLE
Capable of being handled.
WRONGLY
In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
CHANDLER
of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See 1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay. 2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by
PANHANDLE STATE
West Virginia; -- a nickname.
CHANDLERY
Commodities sold by a chandler.
PANHANDLE
The handle of a pan; hence, fig., any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan; as, the panhandle of West Virginia, Texas, or Idaho.
OVERHANDLE
To handle, or use, too much; to mention too often. Shak.
MISHANDLE
To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.
MANHANDLE
1. To move, or manage, by human force without mechanical aid; as, to manhandle a cannon. 2. To handle roughly; as, the captive was manhandled.
CHANDLERLY
Like a chandler; in a petty way. Milton.