handed

See also -handed

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Adjective

handed (not comparable)

1. With hands joined; hand in hand.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV.:

     Into their inmost bower, Handed they went.

2. (in combination) Having a peculiar or characteristic hand.
   • circa 1609, Shakespeare, Cymbeline, III-ii:

     As poisonous tongued as handed

Derived terms

• back-handed
• barehanded
• bloody-handed
• both-handed
• broken-handed
• cack-handed
• car-handed
• clean-handed
• close-handed
• coarse-handed
• crabbed-handed
• cross-handed
• dead-handed
• deadly-handed
• deft-handed
• delicate-handed
• dirty-handed
• double-handed
• doughty-handed
• dry-handed
• empty-handed
• even-handed
• fair-handed
• fast-handed
• forehanded
• four-handed
• frank-handed
• free-handed
• full-handed
• gawk-handed
• gentle-handed
• glad-handed
• gouty-handed
• gripe-handed
• gripple-handed
• ham-handed
• hard-handed
• heavy-handed
• high-handed
• hook-handed
• horny-handed
• hundred-handed
• idle-handed
• iron-handed
• katy-handed
• keck-handed
• lady-handed
• large-handed
• left-handed
• level-handed
• light-handed
• lily-handed
• loose-handed
• lusty-handed

• many-handed
• Marlborough-handed
• mighty-handed
• million-handed
• mob-handed
• myriad-handed
• naked-handed
• neat-handed
• nimble-handed
• numb-handed
• off-handed
• one-handed
• open-handed
• overhanded
• partan-handed
• pink-handed
• powerful-handed
• quick-handed
• ready-handed
• red-handed
• right-handed
• room-handed
• scram-handed
• second-handed
• short-handed
• shovel-handed
• side-handed
• single-handed
• slack-handed
• sleight-handed
• spade-handed
• spare-handed
• steady-handed
• strait-handed
• strong-handed
• sure-handed
• swift-handed
• tender-handed
• thousand-handed
• three-handed
• toom-handed
• tway-handed
• two-handed
• underhanded
• weak-handed
• well-handed
• white-handed
• wide-handed
• worldly-handed
• yare-handed

Verb

handed

1. simple past tense and past participle of hand