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freehand
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. done by hand without mechanical aids or devices; "a freehand drawing" [syn: freehanded ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a freehand sketch EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But she was, sitting in the parlor and drawing freehand on a large tablet. ▪ Instead of copying coats of arms, she drew and painted freehand . ▪ These can be brought into continuous ...
Usage examples of freehand.
Robert Fitz-Stephen, a powerful man of the Norman type, handsome, freehanded, sumptuous in his way of living, liberal and jovial, given to wine and dissipation.
He seemed good-natured, he was freehanded, he had money, he never said anything.
Nemes jogs to the fixed ropes, climbs them freehand, and cuts all of them loose -- ascent lines, rappel lines, safety lines, everything.
But as these are freehand lines, it requires some taste and knowledge to draw them properly, and of course in a large drawing several more squares and circles might be added to aid the draughtsman.
And how many missiles do you think would get to their targets when they can match velocities freehand on those broomsticks of theirs?
Backbreaker Ames called him out on New Angola, and though Ames was seven feet tall, 400 pounds of rock-hard muscle, and a former freehand heavyweight champion, the young Widowmaker killed him in hand-to-hand combat.
She learned that she had just missed a Wild West pageant, recreated from Earth's ancient past, as well as a much-ballyhooed match for the freehand middleweight championship of the Inner Frontier.
Yet he goes off for a fortnight's leave, and puts my boy in full charge, with all that immense business in his hands, and a freehand to do what he likes with it.
Waterhouse sketches out a freehand map of the Southwest Pacific theater of operations, from Burma to the Solomons, from Nippon to New Zealand.