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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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6,001 words match “HAN”

A backhanded blow.

Having bare hands.

BECHANCE adv. 2 definitions

By chance; by accident. [Obs.] Grafton.

BEFOREHAND adv. 3 definitions

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.

BEHINDHAND adv. 2 definitions

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.

An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

BLACK HAND n. 2 definitions

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

BLOODY HAND n. 2 definitions

A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison. Jacob.

A factotum. [R.] He is his master's both-hands, I assure you. B. Jonson.

BOW HAND n. 2 definitions

The hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand. Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand. Spenser.

A basic sulphate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.

CHANCE n. 10 definitions

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personifed. It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything real…

CHANCE-MEDLEY n. 2 definitions

Luck; chance; accident. Milton. Cowper.

Fortuitous; casual. [Obs.]

CHANCEABLY adv.

By chance. [Obs.]

Hazardous. [Obs.] Spenser.

CHANCEL n. 2 definitions

cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front. Chancel aisle (Arch.), the aisle which passes on either side of or around the chancel. -- Chancel arch (Arch.), the arch which spans the main opening, leading to the chancel -- Chancel casement, the principal window in a chancel.…

Chancellorship. [Obs.] Gower.

A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.

CHANCELLORSHIP n.

The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.