a gift or token for good luck or as an expression of good wishes, as at the beginning of the new year or when entering upon a new situation or enterprise.

a first installment of payment.

the initial experience of anything; first encounter with or use of something taken as a token of what will follow; foretaste.

to give a handsel to.

to inaugurate auspiciously.

to use, try, or experience for the first time.

noun

present , presentation