Usually means: Appendage for grasping and manipulation.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hand, hand: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hand, hand: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hand: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hand: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hand: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hand, hand: Wordnik
  7. hand: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hand, Hand, Hand, Hand: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. HAND, Hand, hand: Wiktionary
  10. hand, hand-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. hand, hand-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. hand: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. HAND: Dictionary.com
  14. hand: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. hand: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. H.a.n.d, Hand (Blake), Hand (card games), Hand (comics), Hand (disambiguation), Hand (handwriting), Hand (hieroglyph), Hand (length), Hand (poker), Hand (surname), Hand (unit), Hand, The Hand (Babylon 5), The Hand (comics), The Hand (film), The Hand: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Hand: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. hand: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. hand: Rhymezone
  20. Hand (f), Hand (f) (des Meisters, etc.), hand, hand (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. hand: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Hand: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. hand: Free Dictionary
  24. hand: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Hand, hand-: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. hand: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Cigar Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. hand: Cook's Thesaurus
  4. Hand: Dictionary of Symbolism
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hand: Corporate Apparel Glossary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Hand (anatomy), hand: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. HAND: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. HAND: Netlingo
  3. SMS Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hand (anatomy), hand: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hand: Merck Manuals
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. Hand: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. Hand (anatomy), hand: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. HAND: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. hand: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hand: Easton Bible

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Hand: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hand, hand, hand, hand: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. H.A.N.D, H.A.N.D, the Hand: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hand: Dan's Poker
  2. hand: Pinochle Glossary
  3. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Hand: Gambling Glossary
  5. Hand: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  3. Hand: Fiberglass Glossary
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Hand: Latitude Mexico
  6. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
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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