Left-handed

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• Left-handed

  ·adj Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment. II. Le...

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• left-handed wife

  A concubine; an allusion to an ancient German custom, according to which, when a man married his con...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Left

  ·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Leave>>. II. Left ·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Leave>>. III. Left ·noun That part of surr...

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• Handed

  ·adj With hands joined; hand in hand. II. Handed ·adj Having a peculiar or characteristic hand. II...

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• Left-hand

  ·adj Situated on the left; nearer the left hand than the right; as, the left-hand side; the left-han...

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• Left-handedness

  ·noun ·Alt. of Left-handiness. ...

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• Left-handiness

  ·noun The state or quality of being left-handed; awkwardness. ...

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• Left-off

  ·adj Laid aside; cast-off. ...

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• Left hand

  Among the Hebrews, denoted the north (Job 23:9; Gen. 14:15), the face of the person being supposed t...

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• left over

  left off. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Double-handed

  ·adj Having two hands. II. Double-handed ·adj Deceitful; deceptive. ...

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• Fast-handed

  ·adj Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious. ...

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• Free-handed

  ·adj Open-handed; liberal. ...

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• Hard-handed

  ·adj Having hard hands, as a manual laborer. ...

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• High-handed

  ·adj Overbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a high-handed act. ...

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• Horny-handed

  ·adj Having the hands horny and callous from labor. ...

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• Large-handed

  ·adj Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful. ...

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• Light-handed

  ·adj Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed. ...

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• Lily-handed

  ·adj Having white, delicate hands. ...

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• Open-handed

  ·adj Generous; liberal; munificent. ...

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• Red-handed

  (·adj / ·adv) Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands; — said ...

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• Right-handed

  ·adj Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left. II. Right-handed ·adj Having th...

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• Short-handed

  ·adj Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers. ...

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• Single-handed

  ·adj Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted. ...

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• Sinister-handed

  ·adj Left-handed; hence, unlucky. ...

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• Strait-handed

  ·adj Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly. ...

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• Three-handed

  ·adj Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, ...

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• Two-handed

  ·adj Used with both hands; as, a two-handed sword. II. Two-handed ·adj Using either hand equally we...

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• Wing-handed

  ·adj Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls. ...

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• caw-handed, or caw-pawed

  Awkward, not dextrous, ready, or nimble. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cow-handed

  Awkward. ...

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• two-handed

  Great. A two-handed fellow or wench; a great strapping man orwoman, ...

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• fore-handed

  To be fore-handed is to be in good circumstances; to be comfortably off. The expression is much used...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• cooche-handed

  left-handed. Devon. ...

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• light-handed

  Short of the complement of men. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• short-handed

  A deficient complement of men, or short-handed by many being on the sick-list. ...

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• two handed put

  The amorous congress. ...

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• two-handed fellows

  Those who are both seamen and soldiers, or artificers; as the marines and, specially, marine artille...

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• two-handed saw

  A very useful instrument in ship-carpentry; it is much longer than the hand-saw, and requires two me...

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• muzzle to the left!

  See muzzle to the right! ...

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• Left by Thomas Hinde, 1635, to the parson and churchwardens of the parish (End. Ch. St. Peter, 1903, p. 2).

  No later mention. Named after an owner or builder. ...

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