Anagrams of: HANSEL

• A lucky omen.

• A gift given at New Year, or at the start of some enterprise or new situation, meant to ensure good luck.

• Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series.

• To give a handsel to.

• To inaugurate by means of some ceremony; to break in.

• To use or do for the first time, especially so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.

• restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal

• the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

• a figurative restraint

• fasten with a rope

• anemic looking from illness or emotion

• made of wood of the ash tree

• A pause or rest of a contemplative nature.

• A word occurring between verses or paragraphs in parts of the Hebrew Bible, namely in Habakkuk and the Psalms; perhaps indicating a pause, either for contemplation or for the singer to clear his or her throat.

• a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay

• heal or recover

• get healthy again

• provide a cure for, make healthy again

• a soldier of the American Revolution who was hanged as a spy by the British; his last words were supposed to have been `I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country' (1755-1776)

• United States astronomer who discovered that sunspots are associated with strong magnetic fields (1868-1938)

• prolific United States writer (1822-1909)

• exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

• draw slowly or heavily

• A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I.

• The rights and privileges of such guilds, particularly their trade monopolies.

• A commercial association of Scottish free burghs in the Middle Ages.

• The Hanseatic League: a commercial association of German towns in the Middle Ages.

• The guildhall of a Hanse.

• A fee payable to the Hanse, particularly its entrance fee and the impost levied on non-members trading in its area.

• That part of an elliptical or many-centred arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.

• heal or recover

• get healthy again

• provide a cure for, make healthy again