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The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.

A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.

A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.

Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted.

The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.

Performed by the hand. [Obs.] To draw up and come to handy strokes. Milton.

A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.

A fight with the hands; boxing. "Pollux loves handyfights." B. Jonson.

Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. Hudibras.

A blow with the hand.

See Handiwork.

Beforehand; in anticipation. [Archaic or Dial.] She is come aforehand to anoint my body. Mark xiv. 8.

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

With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.

State of being backhanded; the using of backhanded or indirect methods.

A backhanded blow.

Having bare hands.

preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison.

ually forward with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work. In this also [dress] the country are very much behindhand. Addison.

A Spanish anarchistic society, many of the members of which were imprisoned in 1883.