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Overhand :: Overhand (a.) Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder..

Contraband :: Contraband (n.) Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.

Palm :: Palm (n.) The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; -- so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers..

Weighmaster :: Weighmaster (n.) One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher..

Quern :: Quern (n.) A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills..

Manicure :: Manicure (n.) A person who makes a business of taking care of people's hands, especially their nails..

Featurely :: Featurely (a.) Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome.

Open-handed :: Open-handed (a.) Generous; liberal; munificent.

Pricker :: Pricker (n.) A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking..

Supination :: Supination (n.) The act of turning the hand palm upward; also, position of the hand with the palm upward..

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

Handcuff :: Handcuff (n.) A fastening, consisting of an iron ring around the wrist, usually connected by a chain with one on the other wrist; a manacle; -- usually in the plural..

Cymbal :: Cymbal (n.) A musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together..

Mantis :: Mantis (n.) Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera. They are remarkable for their slender grotesque forms, and for holding their stout anterior legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer. The common American species is M. Carolina..

Advance :: Advance (v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand..

Salesman :: Salesman (n.) One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit..

Merchandise :: Merchandise (v. i.) To trade; to carry on commerce.

Chandoo :: Chandoo (n.) An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking..

Ampulla :: Ampulla (n.) A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.

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