BACKHAND

n. a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.

2.
a.

Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.

3.
a.

Backhanded; indirect; oblique. [R.]


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