0 a square piece of cloth or paper used for cleaning the nose or drying the eyes when they are wet with tears: --
1 a square piece of cloth used for blowing the nose or for cleaning the face or eyes --
On reception prisoners are given two clean shirts, two clean pairs of socks and one clean handkerchief.
One could wash one's teeth, shave, and wash one's socks and handkerchiefs in that one half-pint of water.
Probably formed on the analogy of handkerchief.
Herbert's actions, particularity the covering of the grubby dead child with the silk handkerchief, appear simultaneously superfluous and inadequate.
The owner of an apple stall lost a linen smock and linen shirt, a silk handkerchief and a half yard of lace in the burglary of her family home.
Disinfection by boiling all linen, especially pillowcases, handkerchiefs and sheets, as well as plenty of good food and open fresh air, was also recommended.
She brings illustrated and other papers, books of stories, little comforts in the way of eating and drinking, shirts, gowns, handkerchiefs, c.
But the resourceful young woman has only pretended to eat, hiding the noisome food in a handkerchief.