Definition of hand

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Hand (n.) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.

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Premonish :: Premonish (v. t.) To forewarn; to admonish beforehand.
Levorotatory :: Levorotatory (a.) Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left-handed quartz crystals, etc..
Anticipate :: Anticipate (v. t.) To foresee (a wish, command, etc.) and do beforehand that which will be desired..
Flipper :: Flipper (n.) The hand.
Set :: Set (v. t.) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or rigid; as, to set one's countenance..
Goroon Shell :: Goroon shell () A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell (Triton femorale)..
Syringed :: Syringe (n.) A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc..
Fast-handed :: Fast-handed (a.) Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious.
Job :: Job (v. i.) To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.
Seal :: Seal (n.) Wax, wafer, or other tenacious substance, set to an instrument, and impressed or stamped with a seal; as, to give a deed under hand and seal..
Heel :: Heel (n.) The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel of a scythe..
Knife :: Knife (n.) An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc...
Type :: Type (v. t.) To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure..
Retail :: Retail (v.) The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand..
Handspike :: Handspike (n.) A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes..
Secondary :: Secondary (a.) Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands..
Ready-made :: Ready-made (a.) Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes..
Impropriate :: Impropriate (v. t.) To place the profits of (ecclesiastical property) in the hands of a layman for care and disbursement.
Lift :: Lift (v. t.) To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden..
Brachygrapher :: Brachygrapher (n.) A writer in short hand; a stenographer.
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