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Handed
·adj With hands joined; hand in hand.
II. Handed ·adj Having a peculiar or characteristic hand.
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Lily
·add. ·noun A royal spade;
— usually in ·pl ·see Royal spade, below.
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Lily
The Hebrew name shushan or shoshan, i.e., "whiteness", was used as the general name of several plant...
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Lily
(Heb. shushan, shoshannah). Although there is little doubt that the Hebrew word denotes some plant o...
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Double-handed
·adj Having two hands.
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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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Left-handed
·adj Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment.
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Light-handed
·adj Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.
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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;
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Right-handed
·adj Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
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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.
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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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Left-handed
(Judg. 3:15; 20:16), one unable to use the right hand skilfully, and who therefore uses the left; an...
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caw-handed, or caw-pawed
Awkward, not dextrous, ready, or nimble.
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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...
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cooche-handed
left-handed. Devon.
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light-handed
Short of the complement of men.
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short-handed
A deficient complement of men, or short-handed by many being on the sick-list.
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Annunciation lily
·add. ·- The common white lily (Lilium candidum). So called because it is usually introduced by pain...
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Atamasco lily
·add. ·- ·see under <<Lily>>.
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Bermuda lily
·add. ·- The large white lily (Lilium longiflorum eximium, syn. L. Harrisii) which is extensively cu...
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Day lily
·- A genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white ...
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Easter lily
·add. ·- The Atamasco lily.
II. Easter lily ·add. ·- The daffodil (Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus).
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Guernsey lily
·- A South African plant (Nerine Sarniensis) with handsome lilylike flowers, naturalized on the isla...
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Jacobaean lily
·- A bulbous plant (Amaryllis, / Sprekelia, formosissima) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, dee...
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Lily-livered
·adj White-livered; cowardly.
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Mariposa lily
·- One of a genus (Calochortus) of tuliplike bulbous herbs with large, and often gaycolored, blossom...
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Sea lily
·- A <<Crinoid>>.
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Water lily
·- A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphaea, distinguished for its large floating lea...
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lily white
A chimney-sweeper.
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lily shallow
(WHIP SLANG)
A white driving hat.
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flax-lily
n.
1) An Australian fibre plant, Dianella laevis, var. aspera, R. Br., N.O. Liliaceae. (2) Phormium...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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giant-lily
n.
See under lily.
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gordon lily
n.
See under lily.
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lily, darling
n. a bulbous plant, Crinumflaccidum, Herb., N.O. Amaryllideae; called also the Murray Lily. (See Lil...
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lily, flax
n.
See flax-lily, and flax, New Zealand.
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lily, giant
– , or Spear
– , n.
a fibre plant, Doryanthes excelsa, Corr., N.O. Amaryllideae.
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lily, gordon
n.
a Tasmanian plantand its flower, Blandfordia marginata, Herb., N.O. Liliaceae, and other species...
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lily, murray
n.
i.q. Darling Lily. See above.
1877. F. v. Mueller, `Botanic Teachings,' p. 119:
«This showy ge...
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lily, rock
n.
an orchid, Dendrobiumspeciosum, Smith, N.O. Orchideae. although not aLily, it is always so calle...
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lily, water
n.
There are several indigenousnative varieties of the N.O. Nymphaeceae – – Cabombiapeltata, Pursh;...
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lily, yellow
n.
a Tasmanian name for Bulbine bulbosa, Haw., N.O. Liliaceae.See Leek, Native.
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murray-lily
n.
See lily.
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rock lily
n.
See under lily.
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spear-lily
n.
See lily.
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yellow lily
n.
a Tasmanian name for the Native Leek. See Leek.
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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...
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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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Lily Pot Lane
West out of Staining Lane to No. 7 Noble Street (P.O. Directory). In Aldersgate Ward.
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