Pronunciations (3)
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/ˈhændɪd/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈhændəd/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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ˈhændɪd
Adjective
Having a certain kind or number of hands.
Usage- In compounds
- not-comparable
Synonym of chiral.
Usage- Informal
- not-comparable
Having a peculiar or characteristic hand or way of treating others.
Usage- In compounds
- not-comparable
- Examples
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As poisonous tongued as handed
With hands joined; hand in hand.
Usage- not-comparable
- Obsolete
- Examples
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More examples (1)
yet now, if any two be but once handed in the Church, and have tasted in any sort the nuptiall bed, let them finde themselves never so mistak’n in their dispositions through any error, concealment, or misadventure, that through their different tempers, thoughts, and constitutions, they can neither be to one another a remedy against lonelines, nor live in any union or contentment all their dayes, yet they shall, so they be but found suitably weapon’d to the least possibility of sensuall enjoyment, be made, spight of antipathy to fadge together, and combine as they may to their unspeakable wearisomnes and despaire of all sociable delight in the ordinance which God establisht to that very end.
Into their inmost bower, / Handed they went.
Adjective
having or involving the use of hands
- Antonyms
- Examples
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a handed, tree-living animal
a four-handed card game