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▸ noun: That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.
▸ noun: A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
▸ noun: An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.
▸ noun: That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.
▸ noun: (card games) The set of cards held by a player.
▸ noun: A round of a card game.
▸ noun: (tobacco manufacturing) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
▸ noun: (collective) A bunch of bananas, a typical retail amount, where individual fruits are fingers.
▸ noun: In linear measurement:
▸ noun: (chiefly in measuring the height of horses) Four inches, a hand's breadth.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Three inches.
▸ noun: A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.
▸ noun: Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
▸ noun: (especially in compounds) An agent; a servant, or manual laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty.
▸ noun: A performer more or less skilful.
▸ noun: An instance of helping.
▸ noun: Handwriting; style of penmanship.
▸ noun: A person's autograph or signature.
▸ noun: Promise, word; especially of a betrothal.
▸ noun: Personal possession; ownership.
▸ noun: (chiefly in the plural) Management, domain, control.
▸ noun: (colloquial, chiefly in the negative plural) A hand which is free to assist; especially due to having one's hands full or otherwise fully preoccupied.
▸ noun: Applause.
▸ noun: (historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
▸ noun: (firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
▸ noun: A whole rhizome of ginger.
▸ noun: The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.
▸ noun: (archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
▸ noun: (archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Rate; price.
▸ verb: (transitive) To give, pass or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.
▸ verb: (transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To manage.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To seize; to lay hands on.
▸ verb: (transitive, rare) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
▸ verb: (transitive, nautical) To furl (a sail).
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete) To cooperate.
▸ noun: A surname.
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