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ining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.

Selected from a number; picked out; choice. Seven hundred chosen men left-handed. Judg. xx. 16.

A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders.

To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank. His estate . . . devolved to Lord Somerville. Johnson.

Right-handedness.

The state of being on the right-hand side; also, the quality of being right-handed; right-handedness. Sir T. Browne.

The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four- handed game of cards.

Similar, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals.

A long, heavy, two-handed and two-edged sword, formerly used by Spanish foot soldiers and by executioners. Wilhelm.

rump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower.

Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.

Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.

Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father.

(a window, a house, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass. Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon.

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

Heritage; inheritance. [R.] Robbing their children of the heritance Their fathers handed down Southey.

t; merited reward or punishment; that which is due to one's conduct or motives. This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips. Shak.

A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called also white-handed gibbon.

Rotation in the direction of an outgoing right-handed screw; counter-clockwise rotation; -- applied chiefly to the turning of the plane of polarization of light.

ing or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left; levogyrate, as levulose, left handed quartz crystals, etc. [Written also lævorotatory.]