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Underhanded :: Underhanded (a.) Underhand; clandestine.

Fast-handed :: Fast-handed (a.) Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious.

Undermanned :: Undermanned (a.) Insufficiently furnished with men; short-handed.

Forehanded :: Forehanded (a.) Formed in the forehand or fore parts.

Lily-handed :: Lily-handed (a.) Having white, delicate hands..

Double-handed :: Double-handed (a.) Deceitful; deceptive.

Left-handed :: Left-handed (a.) Having a direction contrary to that of the hands of a watch when seen in front; -- said of a twist, a rotary motion, etc., looked at from a given direction..

Backhand :: Backhand (a.) Backhanded; indirect; oblique.

Dextrality :: Dextrality (n.) The state of being on the right-hand side; also, the quality of being right-handed; right-handedness..

Sinister-handed :: Sinister-handed (a.) Left-handed; hence, unlucky..

Shroud-laid :: Shroud-laid (a.) Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; -- said of rope. See Illust. under Cordage..

Devolve :: Devolve (v. i.) To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank..

Closehanded :: Closehanded (a.) Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted.

Short-handed :: Short-handed (a.) Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers..

Euchre :: Euchre (n.) A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower..

Handed :: Handed (a.) Having a peculiar or characteristic hand.

Forehanded :: Forehanded (a.) Early; timely; seasonable.

Beforehand :: Beforehand (a.) In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.

Right-handed :: Right-handed (a.) Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left..

Right-handed :: Right-handed (a.) Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria.

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