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Single
·adj Alone; having no companion.
II. Single ·noun A handful of gleaned grain.
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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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Single tax
·add. ·- A tax levied upon land alone, irrespective of improvements, — advocated by certain economis...
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Single-acting
·adj Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one...
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Single-breasted
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Single-foot
·noun An irregular gait of a horse;
— called also single-footed pace. ·see <<Single>>, ·vi.
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Single-hearted
·adj Having an honest heart; free from duplicity.
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Single-minded
·adj Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single-hearted.
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Single-surfaced
·add. ·adj Having one surface;
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single peeper
A person having but one eye.
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single, to
To unreeve the running part of top-sail sheets, &c., to let them run freely, or for harbour duty.
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single anchor
A ship unmoored, having hove up one bower, rides by the other.
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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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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;
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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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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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single-action engine
See atmospheric steam-engine.
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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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single-action steam-engine
See atmospheric steam-engine
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