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Hand
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad or running hand. Hence, a signature.
(2):
(n.) Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; - usually in the plural.
(3):
(n.) An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock.
(4):
(v. i.) To cooperate.
(5):
(v. t.) To furl; - said of a sail.
(6):
(v. t.) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
(7):
(v. t.) To seize; to lay hands on.
(8):
(v. t.) To manage; as, I hand my oar.
(9):
(v. t.) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage.
(10):
(n.) Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
(11):
(v. t.) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter.
(12):
(n.) That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.
(13):
(n.) That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand
(14):
(n.) A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
(15):
(n.) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
(16):
(n.) A measure equal to a hand's breadth, - four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.
(17):
(n.) Side; part; direction, either right or left.
(18):
(n.) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
(19):
(n.) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
(20):
(n.) An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking.
(21):
(n.) A gambling game played by American Indians, consisting of guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or the like, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
(22):
(n.) Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new.
(23):
(n.) Rate; price.
(24):
(n.) That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once
(25):
(n.) The quota of cards received from the dealer.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Hand'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/h/hand.html. 1828.
