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Using both hands with equal ease. Smollett.

Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side. Earle.

Pertaining the faculty of using both hands with equal ease. Sir T. Browne.

Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to ambidexter. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

the offender, being led into court with a rope about his neck, and a lighted torch in his hand, begged pardon of his God, the court, etc. In popular language, the phrase now denotes a public apology or recantation, and reparation to an injured party, for improper language or treatment.

nating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.

Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.

e; -- often with on or upon. Watts. He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles. South.

A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.

Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary. The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province. Hallam.

A maidservant; a handmaid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

the Scriptures the angels appear as God's messengers. O, welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings. Milton.

An elephant goad with a sharp spike and hook, resembling a short-handled boat hook. [India] Kipling.

Having a handle. Johnson.

purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils. Do the strings answer to thy noble hand Dryden.

To anticipate and prevent the duke's purpose. R. Hall. He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. Macaulay.

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery. Shak.

of Ambrose in the fourth century. -- Apostle spoon (Antiq.), a spoon of silver, with the handle terminating in the figure of an apostle. One or more were offered by sponsors at baptism as a present to the godchild. B. Jonson.

A hand open and extended so as to show the palm.

and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.