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Hand :: Hand (n.) Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; -- usually in the plural..

Handfast :: Handfast (v. t.) To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage..

Chirognomy :: Chirognomy (n.) The art of judging character by the shape and appearance of the hand.

Pass :: Pass (v. i.) A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.

Underhand :: Underhand (a.) Secret; clandestine; hence, mean; unfair; fraudulent..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits..

Hand Staves :: Hand staves (pl. ) of Han.

Manuscript :: Manuscript (a.) A literary or musical composition written with the hand, as distinguished from a printed copy..

Stenographer :: Stenograph (n.) A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand.

Handful :: Handful (n.) A hand's breadth; four inches.

Dirty :: Dirty (superl.) Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white..

Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile..

Impropriate :: Impropriate (v. t.) To place the profits of (ecclesiastical property) in the hands of a layman for care and disbursement.

Backhand :: Backhand (a.) Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.

Pencil :: Pencil (n.) A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for drawing or writing. See Graphite..

Manductor :: Manductor (n.) A conductor; an officer in the ancient church who gave the signal for the choir to sing, and who beat time with the hand, and regulated the music..

Stilt :: Stilt (n.) A crutch; also, the handle of a plow..

Hand :: Hand (n.) An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock..

Foredispose :: Foredispose (v. t.) To bestow beforehand.

Hansel :: Hansel (n. & v.) See Handsel.

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