Definition of hand

"hand" in the noun sense

1. hand, manus, mitt, paw

the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb

"he had the hands of a surgeon"

"he extended his mitt"

2. hired hand, hand, hired man

a hired laborer on a farm or ranch

"the hired hand fixed the railing"

"a ranch hand"

3. handwriting, hand, script

something written by hand

"she recognized his handwriting"

"his hand was illegible"

4. hand

ability

"he wanted to try his hand at singing"

5. hand

a position given by its location to the side of an object

"objections were voiced on every hand"

6. hand, deal

the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time

"I didn't hold a good hand all evening"

"he kept trying to see my hand"

7. hand

one of two sides of an issue

"on the one hand..., but on the other hand..."

8. hand

a rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece

"the big hand counts the minutes"

9. hand

a unit of length equal to 4 inches used in measuring horses

"the horse stood 20 hands"

10. hand

a member of the crew of a ship

"all hands on deck"

11. bridge player, hand

a card player in a game of bridge

"we need a 4th hand for bridge"

12. hand

a round of applause to signify approval

"give the little lady a great big hand"

13. hand

terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos

"the kangaroo's forearms seem undeveloped but the powerful five-fingered hands are skilled at feinting and clouting"- Springfield (Mass.) Union

14. hand, helping hand

physical assistance

"give me a hand with the chores"

"hand" in the verb sense

1. pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give

place into the hands or custody of

"hand me the spoon, please"

"Turn the files over to me, please"

"He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"

2. hand

guide or conduct or usher somewhere

"hand the elderly lady into the taxi"

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Quotations for hand

On the other hand.

They are hand and glove. [ Proverb ]

Living from hand to mouth. [ Du Bartas ]

A cold hand, a warm heart. [ Proverb ]

As expressive as the face. [ N. P. Willis ]

A trick of sleight of hand. [ French ]

The hand that gives, gathers. [ Eugene Sue ]

All is not at hand that helps. [ Proverb ]

If man come not to gather
The roses where they stand,
They fade among their foliage.
They cannot seek his hand. [ Bryant ]

A clean hand wants no washing. [ Proverb ]

The mind's only perfect vassal. [ Tuckerman ]

Nature never writes a blind hand. [ T. Starr King ]

Cap in hand never harmed any one. [ Italian Proverb ]

Death lays his icy hand on kings. [ Shirley ]

Go - let thy less than woman's hand
Assume the distaff - not the brand. [ Byron ]

He that would win his dame must do
As love does when he draws his bow;
With one hand thrust the lady from,
And with the other pull her home. [ Butler ]

The white wonder of Juliet's hands. [ Shakespeare ]

Liberty and law march hand in hand. [ Adams ]

He knows not a hawk from a hand-saw. [ Proverb ]

A wet hand will hold a dead herring. [ Proverb ]

Gossiping and lying go hand in hand. [ Proverb ]

A heart to pity, and a hand to bless. [ Churchill ]

To throw the stone and hide the hand. [ Proverb ]

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fortune gives her hand to a bold man. [ Proverb ]

Woe to the youth whom fancy gains
Winning from reason's hand the reins. [ Scott ]

Ne'er put a sword in a madman's hand. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Like the hand which ends a dream,
Death, with the might of his sunbeam,
Touches the flesh and the soul awakes. [ Browning ]

Presume to lay their hand upon the ark
Of her magnificent and awful cause. [ Cowper ]

The coward wretch whose hand and heart
Can bear to torture aught below.
Is ever first to quail and start
From slightest pain or equal foe. [ Eliza Cook ]

Think not, dream not that thou livest,
If thy hand doth idly lie,
If thy soul for ever longing,
Yearn but for the by and bye. [ M. W. Wood ]

O, that I were a glove upon that hand.
That I might touch that cheek! [ William Shakespeare ]

I love a hand that meets mine own
With grasp that causes some sensation. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

Satire is the right hand of burlesque. [ Voltaire ]

But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Your egg is ready roasted to your hand. [ Proverb ]

You have made a hand of it like a foot. [ Proverb ]

Better good afar off than evil at hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A dazzling white hand, veined cerulean. [ Massey ]

Never tell your resolution before hand. [ John Selden ]

Water afar won't quench a fire at hand. [ Italian Proverb ]

Grasp no more than your hand will hold. [ Proverb ]

A long tongue is a sign of a short hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Spit in your hand, and take faster hold. [ Proverb ]

Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand. [ Cowper ]

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One nation evermore! [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

I extend my right hand to a falling man. [ Motto ]

He who beholds her hand forgets her face. [ Mrs. Brooks ]

Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart. [ Shelley ]

The hand of the poor is the purse of God. [ Du Vair ]

His noble hand did win what he did spend. [ William Shakespeare ]

Lilies are whitest in a blackamoor's hand. [ Proverb ]

Death comes to all.
His cold and sapless hand
Waves over the world, and beckons us away.
Who shall resist the summons? [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

Walk
Boldly and wisely in that light thou hast.
There is a Hand above will help thee on. [ Bailey ]

What the hand can not reach is but a dream. [ Soulary ]

Music resembles poetry; in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master-hand alone can reach. [ Pope ]

Without the bed her other fair hand was,
On the green coverlet; whose perfect white
Showed like an April daisy on the grass,
With pearly sweat, resembling dew of night. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that slights his enemy dies by his hand. [ Proverb ]

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace. [ Shakespeare ]

One hand washeth another, and both the face. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

One to destroy is murder by the law.
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousands takes a specious name.
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. [ Young ]

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. [ Proverb ]

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy, -
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is not hand, nor foot.
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose.
By any other name would smell as sweet. [ William Shakespeare ]

Prayer moves the hand which moves the world. [ J. A. Wallace ]

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch enchanter's wand! itself a nothing!
But taking sorcery from the master hand.
To paralyze the Caesars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The hand that follows intellect can achieve. [ Michael Angelo ]

With common friends, go with bridle in hand. [ Proverb ]

'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is good to go a foot with a horse in hand. [ Proverb ]

If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep.
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. [ William Shakespeare ]

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A world in the hand is worth two in the bush. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Like a led victim, to my death I'll go.
And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow. [ Dryden ]

When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand. [ William Shakespeare ]

A rugged stone grows smooth from hand to hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

In genial spring, beneath the quivering shade,
Where cooling vapors breathe along the mead,
The patient fisher takes his silent stand.
Intent, his angle trembling in his hand;
With looks unmoved, he hopes the scaly breed.
And eyes the dancing cork and bending reed. [ Pope ]

It is good walking with a horse in one's hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
And not by any sordid shift;
It is haste makes waste;
Extremes have still their fault.
Who gripes too hard the dry and slippery sand,
Holds none at all, or little, in his hand. [ Herrick ]

He refuses the bribe, but puts forth his hand. [ Proverb ]

But Heaven hath a hand in these events,
To whose high will we bound our calm contents. [ William Shakespeare ]

These eyes tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot.
Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot.
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear
Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year.
Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not
Against Heaven's hand or will, nor have a jot
Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward. [ Milton ]

Good at a distance is better than evil at hand. [ Proverb ]

I take thy hand, this hand,
As soft as dove's down, and as white as it;
Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fanned snow.
That's bolted by the northern blast twice o'er. [ William Shakespeare ]

My people too were scared with eerie sounds,
A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls,
A noise of falling weights that never fell.
Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand.
Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door.
And bolted doors that open'd of themselves;
And one betwixt the dark and light had seen
Her, bending by the cradle of her babe. [ Tennyson ]

One hand may wash the other, but both the face. [ Proverb ]

For through the south the custom still commands
The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands. [ Byron ]

Even to the delicacy of their hand
There was resemblance such as true blood wears. [ Byron ]

The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates. [ Cervantes ]

He that weighs the wind must have a steady hand. [ Proverb ]

From hand to mouth will never make a worthy man. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

To stroke with one hand, and stab with the other. [ Proverb ]

He that does his own business hurts not his hand. [ Proverb ]

A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand. [ Proverb ]

So doth Thy right hand guide us through the world
Wherein we stumble. [ Robert Browning ]

To take from the right hand and give to the left. [ Proverb ]

O, reputation! dearer far than life.
Thou precious balsam, lovely, sweet of smell.
Whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash hand,
Not all the owner's care, nor the repenting toil
Of the rude spiller, ever can collect
To its first purity and native sweetness. [ Sewell ]

Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
To read it well; that is to understand. [ Ben Jonson ]

Excels in speech, but of a right hand slow to war. [ Virgil ]

You carry fire in one hand and water in the other. [ Proverb ]

A hand-saw is a good thing, but not to shave with. [ Proverb ]

A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. [ William Shakespeare ]

He has an even hand to throw a louse into the fire. [ Proverb ]

A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Kind messages, that pass from land to land;
Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history.
In which we feel the pressure of a hand,
One touch of fire - and all the rest is mystery! [ Longfellow ]

A sparrow in hand is worth a pheasant that flies by. [ Proverb ]

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety. [ Saadi ]

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. [ Garibaldi ]

When you dance, take heed whom you take by the hand. [ Proverb ]

You shew bread in one hand and a stone in the other. [ Proverb ]

Put your hand no farther than your sleeve will reach. [ Proverb ]

The heart ought to give charity when the hand cannot. [ P. Quesnel ]

Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The discreet hand does not do all that the tongue says. [ Proverb ]

Keep a tight hand over your son (hold the bridle high). [ French Proverb ]

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand. [ La Bruyere ]

It is the diligent hand and head alone that maketh rich. [ Smiles ]

The hand never tires of writing when the heart dictates. [ De Finod ]

Trust no man who pledges you with his hand on his heart. [ Lichtenberg ]

Your father's honour is to you but a second-hand honour. [ Proverb ]

Industry is Fortune's right hand, and frugality her left. [ Proverb ]

There is no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand. [ Shakespeare ]

It is better to take half in hand and the rest presently. [ Proverb ]

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow. [ Victor Hugo ]

The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The more idle a woman's hand, the more occupied her heart. [ S. Dubay ]

My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity. [ Euripides ]

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]

'Twas a hand
White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland
The hand of a woman is often, in youth.
Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat graceless, in truth;
Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm,
Or as sorrow has crossed the life line in the palm? [ Lord Lytton ]

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. [ George Eliot ]

If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye! [ Balzac ]

And, as she looked around, she saw how Death, the consoler,
Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The lute is in the hand of him that knows how to play on it. [ Proverb ]

If thou thyself canst do it, attend no other's help or hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God. [ Theodore Parker ]

He that is fed at another's hand may stay long ere he be full. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Well for him to whom God has given enough with a sparing hand. [ Horace ]

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. [ Gibbon ]

It is good to strike the serpent's head with your enemy's hand. [ Proverb ]

Lay your hand upon your halfpenny twice before you part with it. [ Proverb ]

Even ill luck itself is good for something in a wise man's hand. [ Proverb ]

He carries a store in one hand, and offers bread with the other. [ Plautus ]

Every man holds in his hand a stone to throw at us in adversity. [ Mme. Bachi ]

Business is bought at a dear hand where there is small despatch. [ Bacon ]

Oh, give me thy hand, one writ with me in sour misfortune's book- [ William Shakespeare ]

Gold causes strange disorders when it falls into a fool s hand. [ Proverb ]

If your hand be in a lion's mouth, get it out as fast as you can. [ Proverb ]

Death hath not so ghastly a face at a distance as it hath at hand. [ Proverb ]

Flowers that come from a loved hand are more prized than diamonds.

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart. [ Fuller ]

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid.
Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. [ Horace Greeley ]

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed. [ Byron ]

I must complain the cards are ill-shuffled till I have a good hand. [ Swift ]

Second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on. [ Dickens ]

Hope is a lure. There is no hand that can retain a wave or a shadow. [ Victor Hugo ]

He hath a tear for pity, and a hand open as day for melting charity! [ William Shakespeare ]

Surgeons must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand. [ Proverb ]

His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. [ Bible ]

He that never took oar in his hand must not think scorn to be taught. [ Proverb ]

No greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand. [ Dante ]

The beads in the hand, and the devil in capuch (or cape of the cloak). [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity. [ William Shakespeare ]

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time. [ Voltaire ]

If I held all of truth in my hand, I would beware of opening it to men. [ Fontenelle ]

If you be not content, put your hand in your pocket and please yourself. [ Proverb ]

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Men are unwiser than children; they do not know the hand that feeds them. [ Carlyle ]

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. [ Ouida ]

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If you want a good crop, sow with your hand, and pour not out of the sack. [ Proverb ]

A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart is at his left. [ Bible ]

Silly dogs are more angry with the stone, than with the hand that flung it. [ Proverb ]

She in beauty, education, blood, Holds hand with any princess of the world. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grammar knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hand make them obey. [ Molière ]

Learning in the hand of some is a sceptre, in that of others a fool's bauble. [ Proverb ]

Morn, waked by the circling hours, with rosy hand unbarred the gates of light. [ Milton ]

There are authors in whose hand the pen becomes a magic wand: but they are few. [ Lady Montagu ]

Fortune is gentle to the lowly, and heaven strikes the humble with a light hand. [ Seneca ]

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter. [ Saadi ]

All other goods by fortune's hand are given; a wife is the peculiar gift of heaven. [ Pope ]

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had. [ Johnson, of Goldsmith ]

The soul's armour is never well set to the heart unless a woman's hand has braced it. [ John Ruskin ]

Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong. [ Ouida ]

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. [ Landor ]

It is modesty that places in the feeble hand of beauty the sceptre that commands power. [ Helvetius ]

Nor virtue, wit, or beauty, could preserve from death's hand this their heavenly mould. [ Carew ]

His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly. [ Samuel Johnson ]

We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow. [ Pomfret ]

True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand. [ Cudworth ]

Look up, and not down; look forward, and not back; look out, and not in; and lend a hand. [ E. E. Hale ]

Though you are bound to love your enemy, you are not bound to put your sword in his hand. [ Proverb ]

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. [ Bible ]

God only opened His hand to give flight to a thought that He had held imprisoned from eternity. [ Timothy Titcomb ]

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. [ J. Roux ]

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. [ Schiller ]

In the gates of eternity, the black hand and the white hand hold each other with an equal clasp. [ Mrs. Stowe ]

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished. [ Beaconsfield ]

The hand of diligence defeateth want; prosperity and success are the industrious man's attendants. [ R. Dodsley ]

Sturdy swains, in clean array, for rustic dance prepare, mixed with the buxom damsels hand in hand. [ John Phillips ]

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. [ Johnsoniana ]

The Golden Rule Of Three.

Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]

It is as easy to draw back a stone, thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken. [ Menander ]

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the inkpot. [ L'Estrange ]

No woman is so bad but we may rejoice when her heart thrills to love, for then God has her by the hand. [ J. M. Barrie ]

Since Cupid is represented with a torch in his hand, why did they place virtue on a barrel of gunpowder? [ Levis ]

Few men have any next; they live from hand to mouth without plan, and are ever at the end of their line. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The truth we need is only lightly veiled, not deeply buried by the wise hand which has designed it for us. [ Gellert ]

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist. [ Joubert ]

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms. [ Aristotle ]

Stern is the on-look of necessity. Not without a shudder may the hand of man grasp the mysterious urn of destiny. [ Schiller ]

In love, a woman is like a lyre that surrenders its secrets only to the hand that knows how to touch its strings. [ Balzac ]

Would they could sell us experience, though at diamond prices, but then no one would use the article second-hand! [ Balzac ]

Earnest is the aspect of necessity. Not without a shudder is the hand of man thrust into the mysterious urn of fate. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, a tight hand strength. [ Charles Buxton ]

Her eyes, her lips, her cheeks, her shape, her features, seem to be drawn by love's own hand, by love himself in love. [ Dryden ]

If life be a pleasure, yet, since death also is sent by the hand of the same Master, neither should that displease us. [ Michael Angelo ]

The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand. [ Lord Bacon ]

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the universal world but what you can turn your hand to. [ Cervantes ]

God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity! [ Jane Porter ]

Yet I argue not against heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer right onward. [ Milton ]

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [ Richelieu ]

The man that lays his hand on woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward. [ Tobin ]

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand. [ Owen Feltham ]

Open, candid, and generous, his heart was the constant companion of his hand, and his tongue the artless index of his mind. [ George Canning ]

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low: her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. [ Horace ]

One writer excels at a plan or a title-page; another works away at the body of the book; and a third is a dab hand at an index. [ Goldsmith ]

Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into His bosom. [ Wm. Mountford ]

Never be discouraged because good things go on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand. [ Charles Dickens ]

We disregard the things which lie under our eyes; indifferent to what is close at hand, we inquire after things that are far away. [ Pliny ]

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun; the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying influence from the want of a body. [ Colton ]

There are no pleasures where women are not; and with the French, champagne itself has no flavor, unless served by the hand of beauty. [ Romieu ]

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last; and careful hours, with Time's deformed hand, have written strange defeatures in my face! [ William Shakespeare ]

By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages. [ Milton ]

Talents angel-bright, if wanting worth, are shining instruments in false ambition's hand, to finish faults illustrious, and give infamy renown. [ Young ]

Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue. [ Chesterfield ]

Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand, than ordinary men in long conversations, or the most elaborate correspondence. [ Lavater ]

Talking is like playing the harp. There is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out the music. [ Holmes ]

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess. [ Zimmermann ]

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate. [ Kett ]

Wine maketh the hand quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things. [ Pliny ]

Venerable to me is the hard hand, - crooked, coarse, - wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet. [ Carlyle ]

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand. [ Sterne ]

Those who are conversant with books well know how often they mislead us when we have not a living monitor at hand to assist us in comparing practice with theory. [ Junius ]

There is the same difference between their tongues as between the hour and the minute-hand; one goes ten times as fast, and the other signifies ten times as much. [ Sydney Smith ]

In times of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid. [ Hitopadesa ]

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity. [ Shenstone ]

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution. [ Goethe ]

Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character: biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton. [ Willmott ]

Truth is always consistent with itself and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware. [ Tillotson ]

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand. [ La Bruyere ]

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable. [ Montesquieu ]

Truth may work mightily though in the hand of the sorriest instrument; in the case of the beautiful alone the casket constitutes the jewel (the vessel makes the content). [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael. [ Goethe ]

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Her hand, in whose comparison all whites are ink writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure the cygnet's down is harsh, and spirit of sense hard as the palm of ploughman! [ William Shakespeare ]

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all hands alike, and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one. [ Richter ]

Neither the naked hand nor the understanding, left to itself, can do much; the work is accomplished by instruments and helps, of which the need is not less for the understanding than the hand. [ Bacon ]

Receive with a thankful hand every hour that God may have granted you, and defer not the comforts of life to another year; that in whatever place you are, you may say you have lived agreeably. [ Horace ]

Aspiration, worthy ambition, desires for higher good for good ends, - all these indicate a soul that recognizes the beckoning hand of the good Father, who would call us homeward toward Himself. [ J. G. Holland ]

I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

The strong man is the wise man; the man with the gift of method, of faithfulness, of valour; who has insight into what is what, into what will follow out of what, the eye to see and the hand to do. [ Carlyle ]

Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way. [ Saadi ]

It is better to decide a difference between our enemies than our friends; for one of our friends will most likely become our enemy; but on the other hand, one of our enemies will probably become our friend. [ Bias ]

The great moments of life are but moments like others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot speak. [ Thackeray ]

I should have been a French atheist were it not for the recollection of the time when my departed mother used to take my little hand in hers, and make me say, on my bended knees, Our Father who art in heaven! [ John Randolph ]

However powerful one may be, whether one laughs or weeps, none can make thee speak, none can open thy hand before the time, O mute phantom, our shadow! specter always masked, ever at our side, called Tomorrow. [ Victor Hugo ]

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak. [ Thackeray ]

He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with the other; but he that gives good admonition and bad example builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. [ Bacon ]

If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously. [ Tupper ]

The emperor one day took up a pencil which fell from the hand of Titian, who was then drawing his picture; and upon the compliment which Titian made him on that occasion he said, Titian deserves to be served by Caesar. [ Dryden ]

Education does not commence with the alphabet; it begins with a mother's look, with a father's nod of approbation, or a sign of reproof; with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance. [ G. A. Sala ]

Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. [ Thomas Carlyle ]

But the grave is not deep; it is the shining tread of an angel that seeks us. When the unknown hand throws the fatal dart at the end of man, then boweth he his head and the dart only lifts the crown of thorns from his wounds. [ Richter ]

Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket. [ Goldsmith ]

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us; he has inscribed his thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand. [ T. Parker ]

Give not thy tongue too great a liberty, lest it take thee prisoner. A word unspoken is like the sword in the scabbard, thine; if vented, thy sword is in another's hand. If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue. [ Quarles ]

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands. [ Goethe ]

No good or lovely thing exists in this world without its correspondent darkness; and the universe presents itself continually to mankind under the stern aspect of warning, or of choice, the good and the evil set on the right hand and the left. [ John Ruskin ]

Man is intended for a limited condition; objects that are simple, near, determinate, he comprehends, and he becomes accustomed to employ such means as are at hand; but on entering a wider field he now knows neither what he would nor what he should. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor. [ Macaulay ]

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere. [ Bovee ]

The one thing that marks the true artist is a clear perception and a firm, bold hand, in distinction from that imperfect mental vision and uncertain touch which give us the feeble pictures and the lumpy statues of the mere artisans on canvas or in stone. [ O. W. Holmes ]

The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth. [ Bayne ]

Equality is one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler - a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hardearned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity. [ Paulding ]

If all fools had baubles* we should want fuel. (*The fool or jester carried in his hand a wooden sceptre called a bauble. It was a short stick ornamented at the end with the figure of a fool's head, or with that of a puppet or doll. Jesters were still retained in Herbert's day.) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Other parts of the body assist the speaker, but these speak themselves. By them we ask, we promise, we invoke, we dismiss, we threaten, we entreat, we deprecate; we express fear, joy, grief, our doubts, our assent, our penitence; we show moderation, profusion; we mark number and time. [ Quintilian ]

It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work. [ Theodore Parker ]

The world is divided into two armies. Men make offensive war, women defensive. Love exalts and excites the two parties. They meet hand to hand. Love throws himself into their midst, agitating his torch. But the struggle differs from other battles: instead of destroying, it multiplies the combatants. [ S. Marechal ]

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed upon man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and on the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man. [ Cervantes ]

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of Nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the underworkman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master. [ Hume ]

It is in the time of trouble, when some to whom we may have looked for consolation and encouragement regard us with coldness, and others, perhaps, treat us with hostility, that the warmth of the friendly heart and the support of the friendly hand acquire increased value and demand additional gratitude. [ Bishop Mant ]

This is he that kiss'd away his hand in courtesy; This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice. That when he plays at tables, chides the dice in honorable terms; nay, he can sing a mean most meanly; and in ushering, mend him who can; the ladies call him sweet; The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet. [ William Shakespeare ]

Knowledge of books is like that sort of lantern which hides him who carries it, and serves only to pass through secret and gloomy paths of his own; but in the possession of a man of business, it is as a torch in the hand of one who is willing and able to show those who are bewildered, the way which leads to their prosperity and welfare. [ Steele ]

If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

An observant man, in all his intercourse with society and the world, carries a pencil constantly in his hand, and, unperceived, marks on every person and thing the figure expressive of its value, and therefore instantly on meeting that person or thing again, knows what kind and degree of attention to give it. This is to make something of experience. [ John Foster ]

Personal attachment is no fit ground for public conduct, and those who declare they will take care of the rights of the sovereign because they have received favours at his hand, betray a little mind and warrant the conclusion that if they did not receive those favours they would be less mindful of their duties, and act with less zeal for his interest. [ C. Fox ]

The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism, but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends. [ Disraeli ]

Lavater told Goethe that, on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness. [ Zimmermann ]

Individuals possessing moderate sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth. [ George Combe ]

If there were no readers there certainly would be no writers. Clearly, therefore, the existence of writers depends upon the existence of readers; and, of course, as the cause must be antecedent to the effect, readers existed before writers. Yet, on the other hand, if there were no writers there could be no readers, so it should appear that writers must be antecedent to readers. [ Paul Chatfield, M.D ]

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid. [ Willmott ]

I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God. I find the Bible written in the style of His other books of Creation and Providence. The pen seems in the same hand. I see it, indeed, write at times my steriously in each of these books: thus I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right. [ Richard Cecil ]

The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends. I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellowman with Him from whose hand it came. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actaeon, must pursue the game not only where there is a path, but where there is none. They must be able to simulate and dissimulate; to leap and to creep; to conquer the earth like Caesar, or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus; to throw their sword like Brennus into the trembling scale, or, like Nelson, to snatch the laurels from the doubtful hand of Victory, while she is hesitating where to bestow them. [ Colton ]

What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge! [ Beecher ]

Over Under. These words have various meanings besides the designation of mere locality, and are often misapplied. The terms under oath, under hand and seal, under arms, under his own signature, etc., are fully established and authorized forms of expression, which do not concern the relative positions of the persons and things indicated, but are idiomatic. Hence, over his own signature, is an unjustifiable phrase, despite the fact that the signature is really at the bottom of the instrument signed. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration. [ Leigh Hunt ]

There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the cook's trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which we drop as a burning coal. What a scale from the talon to the horn of plenty, is this human palmleaf! Sometimes it is what a knifeshaped, thin-bladed tool we dare not grasp, or like a poisonous thing we shake off, or unclean member, which, white as it may look, we feel polluted by! [ C. A. Bartol ]

I was walking in the street, a beggar stopped me, — a frail old man. His inflamed, tearful eyes, blue lips, rough rags, disgusting sores . . . oh, how horribly poverty had disfigured the unhappy creature! He stretched out to me his red, swollen, filthy hand. He groaned and whimpered for alms. I felt in all my pockets. No purse, watch, or handkerchief did I find. I had left them all at home. The beggar waited and his out-stretched hand twitched and trembled slightly. Embarrassed and confused, I seized his dirty hand and pressed it. Don't be vexed with me, brother; I have nothing with me, brother. The beggar raised his bloodshot eyes to mine; his blue lips smiled, and he returned the pressure of my chilled fingers. Never mind, brother, stammered he; thank you for this — this, too, was a gift, brother. I felt that I, too, had received a gift from my brother. [ Ivan Tourgueneff ]

Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

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2 letter words in hand (4 words)

3 letter words in hand (2 words)

4 letter words in hand (1 word)

hand + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence hand

Words that start with hand (242 words)

handhandanalysthandanalystshandaxeshandbaghandbagshandballhandballedhandballerhandballershandballshandbasinhandbasinshandbaskethandbellhandbellshandbillhandbillshandblownhandbookhandbookshandbrakehandbrakeshandbreadthhandbreadthshandcarhandcarshandcarthandcartshandclaphandclapshandclasphandclaspshandcoloredhandcrafthandcraftedhandcraftinghandcraftshandcraftsmanhandcraftsmanshiphandcuffhandcuffedhandcuffinghandcuffshanddrawnhandedhandednesshanderhandershandfedhandfeedhandfeederhandfeedershandfeedinghandfeedshandfulhandfulshandgrasphandgraspshandgrenadehandgriphandgripshandgunhandgunshandheldhandheldshandholdhandholdinghandholdshandicaphandicappedhandicapperhandicappershandicappinghandicapshandicrafthandicrafterhandicraftershandicraftshandicraftsmanhandicraftsmenhandierhandiesthandilyhandinesshandinghandiworkhandiworkshandkerchiefhandkerchiefshandknithandknitshandknittedhandknittinghandlehandleablehandlebarhandlebarshandledhandlelesshandlerhandlershandleshandlesshandlighthandlightshandlinghandlingshandloadhandloaderhandloadershandloadeshandloadinghandloadshandlockhandlockshandloomhandloomshandmadehandmaidhandmaidenhandmaidenlyhandmaidenshandmaidshandoffhandoffshandouthandoutshandoverhandovershandphonehandphoneshandpickhandpickedhandpickinghandpickshandpiecehandplayhandplayshandpollinationhandpresseshandprinthandprintshandpuppethandrailhandrailinghandrailingshandrailshandreaderhandreadershandreadinghandresthandrestshandrollhandrollshandshandsawhandsawfishhandsawfisheshandsawshandsbreadthhandsbreadthshandsethandsetshandsewhandsewedhandsewerhandsewershandsewinghandsewnhandshakehandshakeshandshakinghandshakingshandsoaphandsomehandsomelyhandsomenesshandsomerhandsomesthandspinhandspinnerhandspinnershandspinninghandspinshandspringhandspringshandspunhandstamphandstampedhandstampinghandstampshandstandhandstandshandstitchedhandstrokehandstrokeshandswitchhandtowelhandtowelshandwashhandwashedhandwasherhandwashershandwasheshandwashinghandwavehandwavedhandwaveshandwavinghandwearhandwearshandweavinghandwheelhandwheelshandworkhandworkedhandworkerhandworkershandworkshandwovenhandwringerhandwringershandwringinghandwringingshandwrithandwritehandwriteshandwritinghandwritingshandwrittenhandwrotehandwroughthandyhandybookhandybookshandymanhandymenhandypersonhandypersonshandyworkhandyworks

Words with hand in them (189 words)

handbackhandedbackhandedlybackhandednessbackhanderbackhandersbackhandingbackhandsbarehandedbarehandedlybarehandednessbarehandingbarehandsbrakehandschandelierchandeliersclawhandsclockhandsclosehandedclosehandedlyclosehandednessclubhandedclubhandscowhandsdeckhandsdockhandsdoorhandledoorhandlesdoublehandeddoublehandedlydoublehandednessemptyhandedemptyhandedlyemptyhandednessevenhandedevenhandedlyevenhandednessevenhandednessesfarmhandsfieldhandsforehandedforehandedlyforehandednessforehandingforehandsfreehandedfreehandedlyfreehandednesshardhandedhardhandedlyhardhandednessheavyhandedheavyhandedlyheavyhandednesshighhandedhighhandedlyhighhandednessironhandedironhandedlyironhandednesslefthandedlefthandedlylefthandednesslefthanderlefthanderslighthandedlighthandedlylighthandednessmanhandlemanhandledmanhandlesmanhandlingmerchandisabilitymerchandisablemerchandisemerchandisedmerchandisermerchandisersmerchandisesmerchandisingmerchandisingsmerchandizabilitymerchandizablemerchandizemerchandizedmerchandizermerchandizersmerchandizesmerchandizingmerchandizingsmishandlemishandledmishandlesmishandlingnonhandicappedoffhandedoffhandedlyoffhandednessoffhandlyoffhandnessopenhandedopenhandedlyopenhandednessouthandleouthandledouthandlesouthandlingoverhandedoverhandedlyoverhandednessoverhandleoverhandledoverhandlesoverhandlingoverhandspanhandlepanhandledpanhandlerpanhandlerspanhandlespanhandlingprehandleprehandledprehandlerprehandlersprehandlesprehandlingpumphandlepumphandlesredhandedredhandedlyredhandednessrehandicaprehandicappedrehandicappingrehandicapsrehandlerehandledrehandlerrehandlersrehandlesrehandlingrehandlingsrighthandedrighthandedlyrighthandednessrighthanderrighthanderssecondhandedsecondhandedlysecondhandednessshorthandedshorthandedlyshorthandednessshorthandssinglehandedsinglehandedlysinglehandednessstagehandsstickhandlestickhandledstickhandlerstickhandlersstickhandlesstickhandlingstronghandedstronghandedlystronghandednesstwohandedtwohandedlytwohandednessunderhandedunderhandedlyunderhandednessunhandedunhandicappedunhandierunhandiestunhandingunhandleunhandledunhandsunhandsomeunhandyupperhandsweakhandedweakhandedlyweakhandednessworkhands

Word Growth involving hand

Shorter words in hand

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Longer words containing hand

backhand backhanded backhandedly

backhand backhanded backhandedness

backhand backhander backhanders

backhand backhanding

backhand backhands

barehand barehanded barehandedly

barehand barehanded barehandedness

barehand barehanding

barehand barehands

brakehand brakehands

chandelier chandeliers

clawhand clawhands

clockhand clockhands

clubhand clubhanded

clubhand clubhands

cowhand cowhands

deckhand deckhands

dockhand dockhands

farmhand farmhands

fieldhand fieldhands

firsthand

forehand beforehand

forehand forehanded forehandedly

forehand forehanded forehandedness

forehand forehanding

forehand forehands

freehand freehanded freehandedly

freehand freehanded freehandedness

handanalyst handanalysts

handaxes

handbag handbags

handball handballed

handball handballer handballers

handball handballs

handbasin handbasins

handbasket

handbell handbells

handbill handbills

handblown

handbook handbooks

handbrake handbrakes

handbreadth handbreadths

handcar handcars

handcar handcart handcarts

handclap handclaps

handclasp handclasps

handcolored

handcraft handcrafted

handcraft handcrafting

handcraft handcrafts handcraftsman handcraftsmanship

handcuff handcuffed

handcuff handcuffing

handcuff handcuffs

handdrawn

handed backhanded backhandedly

handed backhanded backhandedness

handed barehanded barehandedly

handed barehanded barehandedness

handed closehanded closehandedly

handed closehanded closehandedness

handed clubhanded

handed doublehanded doublehandedly

handed doublehanded doublehandedness

handed emptyhanded emptyhandedly

handed emptyhanded emptyhandedness

handed evenhanded evenhandedly

handed evenhanded evenhandedness evenhandednesses

handed forehanded forehandedly

handed forehanded forehandedness

handed freehanded freehandedly

handed freehanded freehandedness

handed handedness backhandedness

handed handedness barehandedness

handed handedness closehandedness

handed handedness doublehandedness

handed handedness emptyhandedness

handed handedness evenhandedness evenhandednesses

handed handedness forehandedness

handed handedness freehandedness

handed handedness hardhandedness

handed handedness heavyhandedness

handed handedness highhandedness

handed handedness ironhandedness

handed handedness lefthandedness

handed handedness lighthandedness

handed handedness offhandedness

handed handedness openhandedness

handed handedness overhandedness

handed handedness redhandedness

handed handedness righthandedness

handed handedness secondhandedness

handed handedness shorthandedness

handed handedness singlehandedness

handed handedness stronghandedness

handed handedness twohandedness

handed handedness underhandedness

handed handedness weakhandedness

handed hardhanded hardhandedly

handed hardhanded hardhandedness

handed heavyhanded heavyhandedly

handed heavyhanded heavyhandedness

handed highhanded highhandedly

handed highhanded highhandedness

handed ironhanded ironhandedly

handed ironhanded ironhandedness

handed lefthanded lefthandedly

handed lefthanded lefthandedness

handed lighthanded lighthandedly

handed lighthanded lighthandedness

handed offhanded offhandedly

handed offhanded offhandedness

handed openhanded openhandedly

handed openhanded openhandedness

handed overhanded overhandedly

handed overhanded overhandedness

handed redhanded redhandedly

handed redhanded redhandedness

handed righthanded righthandedly

handed righthanded righthandedness

handed secondhanded secondhandedly

handed secondhanded secondhandedness

handed shorthanded shorthandedly

handed shorthanded shorthandedness

handed singlehanded singlehandedly

handed singlehanded singlehandedness

handed stronghanded stronghandedly

handed stronghanded stronghandedness

handed twohanded twohandedly

handed twohanded twohandedness

handed underhanded underhandedly

handed underhanded underhandedness

handed unhanded

handed weakhanded weakhandedly

handed weakhanded weakhandedness

hander backhander backhanders

hander handers backhanders

hander handers lefthanders

hander handers righthanders

hander lefthander lefthanders

hander righthander righthanders

handfed

handfeed handfeeder handfeeders

handfeed handfeeding

handfeed handfeeds

handful handfuls

handgrasp handgrasps

handgrenade

handgrip handgrips

handgun handguns

handheld handhelds

handhold handholding

handhold handholds

handicap handicapped nonhandicapped

handicap handicapped rehandicapped

handicap handicapped unhandicapped

handicap handicapper handicappers

handicap handicapping rehandicapping

handicap handicaps rehandicaps

handicap rehandicap rehandicapped

handicap rehandicap rehandicapping

handicap rehandicap rehandicaps

handicraft handicrafter handicrafters

handicraft handicrafts handicraftsman

handicraft handicrafts handicraftsmen

handier unhandier

handiest unhandiest

handily

handiness

handing backhanding

handing barehanding

handing forehanding

handing unhanding

handiwork handiworks

handkerchief handkerchiefs

handknit handknits

handknit handknitted

handknit handknitting

handle doorhandle doorhandles

handle handleable

handle handlebar handlebars

handle handled manhandled

handle handled mishandled

handle handled outhandled

handle handled overhandled

handle handled panhandled

handle handled rehandled prehandled

handle handled stickhandled

handle handled unhandled

handle handleless

handle handler handlers panhandlers

handle handler handlers rehandlers prehandlers

handle handler handlers stickhandlers

handle handler panhandler panhandlers

handle handler rehandler prehandler prehandlers

handle handler rehandler rehandlers prehandlers

handle handler stickhandler stickhandlers

handle handles doorhandles

handle handles handless

handle handles manhandles

handle handles mishandles

handle handles outhandles

handle handles overhandles

handle handles panhandles

handle handles pumphandles

handle handles rehandles prehandles

handle handles stickhandles

handle manhandle manhandled

handle manhandle manhandles

handle mishandle mishandled

handle mishandle mishandles

handle outhandle outhandled

handle outhandle outhandles

handle overhandle overhandled

handle overhandle overhandles

handle panhandle panhandled

handle panhandle panhandler panhandlers

handle panhandle panhandles

handle pumphandle pumphandles

handle rehandle prehandle prehandled

handle rehandle prehandle prehandler prehandlers

handle rehandle prehandle prehandles

handle rehandle rehandled prehandled

handle rehandle rehandler prehandler prehandlers

handle rehandle rehandler rehandlers prehandlers

handle rehandle rehandles prehandles

handle stickhandle stickhandled

handle stickhandle stickhandler stickhandlers

handle stickhandle stickhandles

handle unhandle unhandled

handlight handlights

handling handlings rehandlings

handling manhandling

handling mishandling

handling outhandling

handling overhandling

handling panhandling

handling rehandling prehandling

handling rehandling rehandlings

handling stickhandling

handload handloader handloaders

handload handloades

handload handloading

handload handloads

handlock handlocks

handloom handlooms

handmade

handmaid handmaiden handmaidenly

handmaid handmaiden handmaidens

handmaid handmaids

handoff handoffs

handout handouts

handover handovers

handphone handphones

handpick handpicked

handpick handpicking

handpick handpicks

handpiece

handplay handplays

handpollination

handpresses

handprint handprints

handpuppet

handrail handrailing handrailings

handrail handrails

handreader handreaders

handreading

handrest handrests

handroll handrolls

hands backhands

hands barehands

hands brakehands

hands clawhands

hands clockhands

hands clubhands

hands cowhands

hands deckhands

hands dockhands

hands farmhands

hands fieldhands

hands forehands

hands handsaw handsawfish handsawfishes

hands handsaw handsaws

hands handsbreadth handsbreadths

hands handset handsets

hands handsew handsewed

hands handsew handsewer handsewers

hands handsew handsewing

hands handsew handsewn

hands handshake handshakes

hands handshaking handshakings

hands handsoap

hands handsome handsomely

hands handsome handsomeness

hands handsome handsomer

hands handsome handsomest

hands handsome unhandsome

hands handspin handspinner handspinners

hands handspin handspinning

hands handspin handspins

hands handspring handsprings

hands handspun

hands handstamp handstamped

hands handstamp handstamping

hands handstamp handstamps

hands handstand handstands

hands handstitched

hands handstroke handstrokes

hands handswitch

hands overhands

hands shorthands

hands stagehands

hands unhands unhandsome

hands upperhands

hands workhands

handtowel handtowels

handwash handwashed

handwash handwasher handwashers

handwash handwashes

handwash handwashing

handwave handwaved

handwave handwaves

handwaving

handwear handwears

handweaving

handwheel handwheels

handwork handworked

handwork handworker handworkers

handwork handworks

handwoven

handwringer handwringers

handwringing handwringings

handwrit handwrite handwrites

handwrit handwriting handwritings

handwrit handwritten

handwrote

handwrought

handy handybook handybooks

handy handyman

handy handymen

handy handyperson handypersons

handy handywork handyworks

handy unhandy

lefthand lefthanded lefthandedly

lefthand lefthanded lefthandedness

lefthand lefthander lefthanders

longhand

merchandisability

merchandisable

merchandise merchandised

merchandise merchandiser merchandisers

merchandise merchandises

merchandising merchandisings

merchandizability

merchandizable

merchandize merchandized

merchandize merchandizer merchandizers

merchandize merchandizes

merchandizing merchandizings

offhand offhanded offhandedly

offhand offhanded offhandedness

offhand offhandly

offhand offhandness

overhand overhanded overhandedly

overhand overhanded overhandedness

overhand overhandle overhandled

overhand overhandle overhandles

overhand overhandling

overhand overhands

righthand righthanded righthandedly

righthand righthanded righthandedness

righthand righthander righthanders

secondhand secondhanded secondhandedly

secondhand secondhanded secondhandedness

shorthand shorthanded shorthandedly

shorthand shorthanded shorthandedness

shorthand shorthands

stagehand stagehands

underhand underhanded underhandedly

underhand underhanded underhandedness

unhand unhanded

unhand unhandicapped

unhand unhandier

unhand unhandiest

unhand unhanding

unhand unhandle unhandled

unhand unhands unhandsome

unhand unhandy

upperhand upperhands

workhand workhands