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Having two hands; -- often used as an epithet equivalent to large, stout, strong, or powerful. "Two-handed sway." Milton.

Of or pertaining to the Ulotrichi. -- n.

Happening at a bad time; unseasonable; inconvenient. A. Trollope.

Same as Subchanter.

Done, as pitching, with the hand lower than the shoulder, or, as bowling, with the hand lower than elbow.

Underhand; clandestine.

In an underhand manner.

To hang under or down; to suspend. Holland.

An assistant or deputy hangman. Shak.

To loose from the hand; to let go. Hold off! unhand me, gray beard loon! Eftsoons his hand dropped he. Coleridge.

Not handsome; not beautiful; ungraceful; not comely or pleasing; plain; homely. Were she other than she is, she were unhandsome. Shak. I can not admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular . . . in the globe. Woodward.

Clumsy; awkward; as, an Unhandy man.

To divest or strip of hangings; to remove the hangings, as a room.

To undo the mechanism of; to unmake; as, to unmechanize a structure. [Obs.] Sterne.

Not mechanized. Paley.

Not merchantable; not fit for market; being of a kind, quality, or quantity that is unsalable. McElrath.

No thanks; ill will; misfortune. [Obs.] Unthank come on his head that bound him so. Chaucer.

Lifted by the hand, or by both hands; as, the uphand sledge. [R.] Moxon.

To hang up. Spenser.

ine as a hypnotic. By extension, any one of the series of related substances of which urethane proper is the type.