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-- To get one's hand in, to make a beginning in a certain work; to become accustomed to a particular business. -- To have a hand in, to be concerned in; to have a part or concern in doing; to have an agency or be employed in. -- To have in hand. (a) To have in one's power or control. Chaucer. (b) To be engaged upon or occupied with. -- To have one's hands full, to have in hand all that one can do, or more than can be done conveniently; to be pressed with labor or engagements; to be surrounded with difficulties. -- To have, or get, the (higher) upper hand, to have, or get, the better of another person or thing. -- To his hand, To my hand, etc., in readiness; already prepared. "The work is made to his hands." Locke. -- To hold hand, to compete successfully or on even conditions. [Obs.] Shak. -- To lay hands on, to seize; to assault. -- To lend a hand, to give assistance. -- To lift, or put forth, the hand against, to attack; to oppose; to kill. -- To live from hand to mouth, to obtain food and other necessaries as want compels, without previous provision. - - To make one's hand, to gain advantage or profit. -- To put the hand unto, to steal. Ex. xxii. 8.-- To put the last, or finishing, hand to, to make the last corrections in; to complete; to perfect. -- To set the hand to, to engage in; to undertake.

That the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to.

Deut. xxiii. 20.

-- To stand one in hand, to concern or affect one. -- To strike hands, to make a contract, or to become surety for another's debt or good behavior. -- To take in hand. (a) To attempt or undertake. (b) To seize and deal with; as, he took him in hand. -- To wash the hands of, to disclaim or renounce interest in, or responsibility for, a person or action; as, to wash one's hands of a business. Matt. xxvii. 24. -- Under the hand of, authenticated by the handwriting or signature of; as, the deed is executed under the hand and seal of the owner.

Hand (hnd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Handed; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.] Prior.

4. To seize; to lay hands on. [Obs.] Shak.

5. To pledge by the hand; to handfast. [R.]

6. (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.

Hand, v. i. To coˆperate. [Obs.] Massinger.

Hand"bar`row (-br`r), n. A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.

Hand"bill` (-bl`), n. 1. A loose, printed sheet, to be distributed by hand.

2. A pruning hook. [Usually written hand bill.]

Hand"book` (-bk`), n. [Hand + book; cf. AS. handbc, or G. handbuch.] A book of reference, to be carried in the hand; a manual; a guidebook.

Hand"breadth` (-brdth`), n. A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. Ex. xxxvii. 12.

Hand"cart`, n. A cart drawn or pushed by hand.

Hand"cloth` (-klth`; 115), n. A handkerchief.

Hand"craft` (-krft`), n. Same as Handicraft.

Hand"crafts`man (-man), n.; pl. -men (-men). A handicraftsman.

Hand"cuff` (-kf`), n. [AS. handcops; hand hand + cosp, cops, fetter. The second part was confused with E. cuffs,] A fastening, consisting of an iron ring around the wrist, usually connected by a chain with one on the other wrist; a manacle; -- usually in the plural.

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Hand"cuff` (hnd"kf`), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Handcuffed (- kft`); p. pr. & vb. n. Handcuffing.] To apply handcuffs to; to manacle. Hay (1754).

Hand"ed, a. 1. With hands joined; hand in hand.

Into their inmost bower, Handed they went.

Milton.

2. Having a peculiar or characteristic hand.