Definition of hand

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Hand (n.) Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.

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Portpane :: Portpane (n.) A cloth for carrying bread, so as not to touch it with the hands..
Surveyorship :: Surveyor (n.) In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port..
Bill :: Bill (n.) A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill..
Prepense :: Prepense (v. t.) Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense..
Premerit :: Premerit (v. t.) To merit or deserve beforehand.
Lead :: Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man..
Climb :: Climb (v. i.) To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet..
Current :: Current (a.) Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history..
Punt :: Punt (v. t.) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands..
Ivory-bill :: Ivory-bill (n.) A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States..
Weaken :: Weaken (v. t.) To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument..
Touch :: Touch (v.) The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes..
Tang :: Tang (n.) The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle..
Handselling :: Handselling () of Handse.
Hand :: Hand (n.) The quota of cards received from the dealer.
Lug :: Lug (n.) That which projects like an ear, esp. that by which anything is supported, carried, or grasped, or to which a support is fastened; an ear; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug..
Missile :: Missile (a.) Capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or rngine, so as to strike an object at a distance..
Handle :: Handle (v. t.) To use or manage in writing or speaking; to treat, as a theme, an argument, or an objection..
Hornbook :: Hornbook (n.) A book containing the rudiments of any science or branch of knowledge; a manual; a handbook.
Weaving :: Weaving (n.) An incessant motion of a horse's head, neck, and body, from side to side, fancied to resemble the motion of a hand weaver in throwing the shuttle..
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