Crossword clues for handed
handed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hand \Hand\ (h[a^]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Handed; p. pr. & vb. n. Handing.]
To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter.
To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage.
To manage; as, I hand my oar. [Obs.]
--Prior.To seize; to lay hands on. [Obs.]
--Shak.To pledge by the hand; to handfast. [R.]
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(Naut.) To furl; -- said of a sail.
--Totten.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.
Handed \Hand"ed\, a.
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With hands joined; hand in hand.
Into their inmost bower, Handed they went.
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Having a peculiar or characteristic hand.
As poisonous tongued as handed.
--Shak.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.
Wiktionary
1 With hands joined; hand in hand. 2 (qualifier: in combination) Having a peculiar or characteristic hand or way of treating others. v
(en-past of: hand)
WordNet
adj. having or involving the use of hands; "a handed, tree-living animal"; "a four-handed card game" [ant: handless]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "handed".
But if they refuse to abjure, they are to be handed over to the secular Court for punishment.
The one who climbed aboard had another oilskin pouch in his hand, which he handed to the Frenchman.
Aethylla returned with Achates who she handed to Cornelia, who smiled and took her son eagerly.
Joke, the one that must have been handed down from Aching to Aching for hundreds of years.
He followed ALL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL167 with an antistaphylococcal injection and finally handed over a sauce bottle filled to the rim with acriflavine solution.
At first Mr Passant, the post-master, made some difficulties but at last he consented and to my surprise he handed me, in addition to a letter for my mother, one addressed to Bissett.
Mr Parmenter, as he handed the aerogram across the big table littered with maps, plans and drawings of localities terrestrial and celestial.
Pirem handed over a coin before Ager could dig out any coppers from his purse.
She handed over an airmail letter and a well- wrapped packet about the size of a box of chocolates.
Waiting until all was quiet, Rolan mounted in front of Alec and handed him back the cloak.
He handed Alec the silver ring, and strung the seal around his own neck on a bit of string.
I had just finished wiggling into my boots and securing my vest when Alem handed me the flechette pistol.
I was handed along all the way from alopecia, which used to be called baldness, to zoster, which used to be known as shingles.
As soon as she had done so, Maude strapped her wrists to the front legs of the apparatus, whilst Alice made her slim ankles fast to the other legs, thus spread-eagling her startlingly jutting, white, twitching bottom out and up in the most lascivious way, so that the secret ambery crease between the naked hillocks was lewdly distended and every portion of her private anatomy exposed not only to the gaze of her executioner but also to the searching tips of the slender withes of the fresh new rod which Maude now handed her chum with sparkling eyes.
He handed the piece of cloth down to Amity, who held his legs to steady him during the next part of his work.