Part 5100

<h1>Hance</h1> <Xpage=667>

<hw>Hance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Enhance</er>.]</ety> <def>To raise; to elevate.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Lydgate.</i>

<h1>Hance, Hanch</h1> <Xpage=667>

<hw><hw>Hance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Hanch</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw><ety>[See <er>Hanse</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>See <er>Hanse</er>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A sudden fall or break, as the fall of the fife rail down to the gangway.</def>

<h1>Hand</h1> <Xpage=667>

<hw>Hand</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>hand</ets>, <ets>hond</ets>; akin to D., G., & Sw. <ets>hand</ets>, OHG. <ets>hant</ets>, Dan. <ets>haand</ets>, Icel. <ets>h\'94nd</ets>, Goth. <ets>handus</ets>, and perh. to Goth. <ets>hinpan</ets> to seize (in comp.). Cf. <er>Hunt</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See <er>Manus</er>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand</def>; as: <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey</def>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>An index or pointer on a dial; <as>as, the hour or minute <ex>hand</ex> of a clock</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Side; part; direction, either right or left.</def>

<blockquote>On this <b>hand</b> and that <b>hand</b>, were hangings. <i>Ex. xxxviii. 15.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The Protestants were then on the winning <b>hand</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.</def>

<blockquote>He had a great mind to try his <b>hand</b> at a Spectator. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.</def>

<blockquote>To change the <b>hand</b> in carrying on the war. <i>Clarendon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by my <b>hand</b>. <i>Judges vi. 36.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; <as>as, a deck <ex>hand</ex>; a farm <ex>hand</ex>; an old <ex>hand</ex> at speaking.</as></def>

<blockquote>A dictionary containing a natural history requires too many <b>hands</b>, as well as too much time, ever to be hoped for. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I was always reckoned a lively <b>hand</b> at a simile. <i>Hazlitt.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>Handwriting; style of penmanship; <as>as, a good, bad or running <ex>hand</ex></as>. Hence, a signature.</def>

<blockquote>I say she never did invent this letter; This is a man's invention and his <b>hand</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Some writs require a judge's <b>hand</b>. <i>Burril.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; -- usually in the plural.</def> "Receiving in <i>hand</i> one year's tribute."

<i>Knolles.</i>

<blockquote>Albinus . . . found means to keep in his <b>hands</b> the goverment of Britain. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>Agency in transmission from one person to another; <as>as, to buy at first <ex>hand</ex>, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second <ex>hand</ex>, that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new</as>.</def>