| Open-handed |
Generous; liberal; munificent. |
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| Red-handed |
Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands; -- said of a person taken in the act of homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime; as, he was taken red-hand or red-handed. |
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| Right-handed |
Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left. |
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| Right-handed |
Having the same direction or course as the movement of the hands of a watch seen in front; -- said of the motion of a revolving object looked at from a given direction. |
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| Right-handed |
Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. |
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| Short-handed |
Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers. |
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| Single-handed |
Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted. |
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| Sinister-handed |
Left-handed; hence, unlucky. |
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| Strait-handed |
Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly. |
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| Three-handed |
Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of cards. |
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| Two-handed |
Having two hands; -- often used as an epithet equivalent to large, stout, strong, or powerful. |
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| Two-handed |
Used with both hands; as, a two-handed sword. |
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| Two-handed |
Using either hand equally well; ambidextrous. |
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| Wing-handed |
Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls. |
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| Double-handed |
Having two hands. |
a. |
| Double-handed |
Deceitful; deceptive. |
a. |
| Fast |
To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry. |
v. i. |
| Fast |
To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence. |
v. i. |
| Fast |
Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment. |
v. i. |
| Fast |
Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation. |
v. i. |