Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Handsome \Hand"some\ (?; 277), a. [Compar. {Handsomer}; superl.
   {Handsomest}.] [Hand + -some. It at first meant, dexterous;
   cf. D. handzaam dexterous, ready, limber, manageable, and E.
   handy.]
   1. Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied
      to things as persons. [Obs.]

            That they [engines of war] be both easy to be
            carried and handsome to be moved and turned about.
                                                  --Robynson
                                                  (Utopia).

            For a thief it is so handsome as it may seem it was
            first invented for him.               --Spenser.

   2. Agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a
      pleasing appearance or expression; attractive; having
      symmetry and dignity; comely; -- expressing more than
      pretty, and less than beautiful; as, a handsome man or
      woman; a handsome garment, house, tree, horse.

Source : WordNet®

handsome
     adj 1: pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to
            ideals of form and proportion; "a fine-looking woman";
            "a good-looking man"; "better-looking than her
            sister"; "very pretty but not so extraordinarily
            handsome"- Thackeray; "our southern women are
            well-favored"- Lillian Hellman [syn: {fine-looking}, {good-looking},
             {better-looking}, {well-favored}, {well-favoured}]
     2: given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous
        goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded
        host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving
        and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent
        gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather" [syn: {big},
        {bighearted}, {bounteous}, {bountiful}, {freehanded}, {giving},
         {liberal}, {openhanded}]