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/hˈændəd/ /hˈændɪd/ Listen

verb

Hand v. t. (past & past part. handed; pres. part. handing)

1.

To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter.

2.

To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage.

3.

To manage; as, I hand my oar. (Obs.)

4.

To seize; to lay hands on. (Obs.)

5.

To pledge by the hand; to handfast. (R.)

6.

(Naut.) To furl; said of a sail.

To hand down, to transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor; as, fables are handed down from age to age; to forward to the proper officer (the decision of a higher court); as, the Clerk of the Court of Appeals handed down its decision.

To hand over, to yield control of; to surrender; to deliver up.

Hand v. i. To cooperate. (Obs.)

adjective

Handed adj.

1.

With hands joined; hand in hand. "Into their inmost bower, Handed they went."

2.

Having a peculiar or characteristic hand. "As poisonous tongued as handed." Note: Handed is used in composition in the sense of having (such or so many) hands; as, bloody-handed; free-handed; heavy-handed; left-handed; single-handed.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Handed" Quotes from Famous Books

... the affair always amused her; though, in fact, it came to pass easily. She had the great fortune of the family. Being a widow with no children, and the time not being come when philanthropy beckons on the right hand and on the left to free-handed women, Mrs. Carriswood travelled. As she expressed it, she was searching the globe for a perfect climate. "Not that I in the least expect to find it," said she, cheerfully, "but I like to vary my disappointments; when I get worn out being frozen, winters, I go somewhere to be soaked." ...

— Stories of a Western Town • Octave Thanet

... account, in exact proportion to its prevalence in those systems. The confirmations of this fact will be worthy of a distinct and particular examination. I shall content myself with barely observing here, that of all the confederacies of antiquity, which history has handed down to us, the Lycian and Achaean leagues, as far as there remain vestiges of them, appear to have been most free from the fetters of that mistaken principle, and were accordingly those which have ...

— The Federalist Papers

... anticipated, he came back empty-handed; for the first thing Scheckennarre did was to ask how much Farmer Rodel himself was going to give, and when he heard that Rodel, for the present, was not going to give anything, his course, too, was clear and he ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various

... A cop handed Hoddan a garment. He put it on. He became aware that the cop was scared. So was Derec. Everybody in the room was scared except himself. Hoddan found himself incredulous. People didn't act this way ...

— The Pirates of Ersatz • Murray Leinster

... in spells among modern Celtic peoples is a convincing proof of their use in pagan times, and throws light upon their nature. In Brittany they are handed down in certain families, and are carefully guarded from the knowledge of others. The names of saints instead of the old gods are found in them, but in some cases diseases are addressed as personal beings. In the Highlands similar charms are found, and are often ...

— The Religion of the Ancient Celts • J. A. MacCulloch

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