# Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)

Author: Davidson, Thomas, 1856-1923 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Encyclopedias/Dictionaries/Reference

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38538

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Chambers%27s+Twentieth+Century+Dictionary+Davidson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

HANDICAP, hand'i-kap, _v.t._ to impose special disadvantages or impediments upon in order to offset advantages, and make a better contest--in a horse-race the superior horse carries a heavier weight, while foot-runners are placed at different distances, or start at different times: (_fig._) to place at a disadvantage by some burden or disability.--_n._ any contest so adjusted, or the condition imposed.--_n._ HAND'ICAPPER, one who handicaps. [_Hand_ in the _cap_, from the usage in an ancient kind of sport and method of settling a bargain by arbitration.]

## Chapters

- [iii. 19)--a favourite subject of Christian art, and of our own medieval](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-twentieth-century-dictionary-part-2-of-4-e-m-38538/chapters/2/index.md)
- [xxvii. 24); WITH A HEAVY HAND, oppressively; WITH A HIGH HAND, without](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-twentieth-century-dictionary-part-2-of-4-e-m-38538/chapters/1/index.md)