Definition of Hand

Hand

That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand

A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.

An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock.

A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.

Side; part; direction, either right or left.

Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.

Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.

An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking.

Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad or running hand. Hence, a signature.

Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; -- usually in the plural.

Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new.

Rate; price.

That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once

The quota of cards received from the dealer.

A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.

The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.

To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter.

To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage.

To manage; as, I hand my oar.

To seize; to lay hands on.

To pledge by the hand; to handfast.

To furl; -- said of a sail.

To cooperate.

A gambling game played by American Indians, consisting of guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or the like, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.

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Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Khalil Gibran

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Ronald Reagan

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Vince Lombardi

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David Thoreau