Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Handling

Handling (han"dling) , noun

[Anglo-Saxon handlung.]

1.
A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, transitive verb
The heavens and your fair handling Have made you master of the field this day. — Spenser
2.
(Drawing, Painting, etc.) The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch. — Fairholt