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1 rather suspect ray own judgment than 1 canbelieve a fault to be in that poem, which lay solong under Virgil’s correction, and had his lastharui put to it. 'Addison.
11. Performance.
Where are these porters,
These lazy knaves? Y’have made a fine hand!fellows,
There’s a trim rabble let in. Shakesp.
12. Power of performance.
He had a great mind to try his hand at a Spec-tator, and would fain have one of his writing inray works. ^ Addison .
A friend of mine has a very fine hand on theviolin. Addison.
13. Attempt; undertaking.
Out of them you dare take in hand to lay openthe original of such a nation. Spenser on Ireland .
14. Manner of gathering or taking.
As her majesty hath received great profit, somay she, by a moderate hand, from time to timereap the like. Bacon .
15. Workmanship; power or act of manu-facturing or making.
An intelligent being, coming out of the hands ofinfinite perfection, with an aversion or even indif-ferency to be reunited with its Author, the sourceof its utmost felicity, is sucli a shock and deformityin the beautiful analogy of things, as is not con-sistent with finite wisdom and perfection. Cheyne.
1 6 . Manner of acting or performing.
T£ie master saw the madness rise ;
His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes;
And while ne heav’n and earth defy’d,
Chang’d his hand, and check’d his pride. Dryden.
17. Agency ; part in action.
God must have set a more than ordinary esteemupou that which David was not thought fit tohave an hand in. South.
18. The act of giving or presenting.
Let Tamar dress the meat in my sight, that Imay eat it at her hand. 2 Sum. xiii. 5.
To-night the poet’s advocate 1 stand,
And he deserves the favour at my hand. Addison.
19. Act of receiving any thing ready to one’shand, when it only waits to be taken.
His power reaches no farther than to compoundand divide the materials that are made to his hand;but can do nothing towards the making or destroy-ing one atom of what is already in being. Locke.
Many, whose greatness ancf fortune were notmade to their /lands,had sufficient qualificationSandopportunities of rising to these high posts. Addison.
20. Care; necessity of managing.
Jupiter had a farm a long time upon his hands,for want of a tenant to come up to his price. VKstr.
When a statesman wants a day’s defence.
Or envy holds a whole week’s war with sense,
Or simple pride for flatt’ry makes demands,
May dunce by dunce be whistled off my hands.Pope.
2J. Discharge of duty.
Let it therefore be required, on both parts, atthe hands of the clergy, to be in meanness of estatelike the apostles; at the hands of the laity, to beas they who lived under the apostles. Hooker.
22. Reach ; nearness : as, at hand, withinreach, near, approaching.
Your husband is at hand, 1 hear his trumpet.
Shakesp .
Cousins, I hope the days are neaT at hand,
That chambers will be safe. ^ Shakesp.
He is at hand , and Pitidarus is comeTo do you salutation. ^ Shakesp.
The sight of his mind was like some sights of eyes;rather strong at hand than to carry afar off. Bacon .
Any light thing that movetli, when we find nowind, sheweth a wiud at hand. Bacon
A very great sound near hand hath struckcnmany deaf. Bacon
It is not probable that any body should effectthat at a distance, which, nearer hand, it cannotperform. Brown.
When mineral or metal is to be generated, na-ture needs not to have at hand salt, sulphur, andmercury. Boyle.
23. Manual management.
Nor swords at hand, nor hissing darts afar,
Are doom’d t’avenge the tedious bloody war.Dryd.
24. State of being in preparation.
Where is our usual manager of mirth ?
What revels are in hand ? Is there no play,
To ease the anguish of a torturing hour ? Shakesp.
25. State of being in present agitation.
I look’d upon her with a soldier’s eye ;
That lik’d, hut had a rougher task in handThan to drive liking to the name of war. Shakesp.
It is indifferent to the matter in hand which waythe learned shall determine of it. Locke.
26. Cards held at a game.
There was never a hand drawn, that did doublethe rest of the habitable world, before this. Bacon .
27. That which is used in opposition toanother.
He would dispute,
Confute, change hands, and still coufut e.Iiudibras.
28. Scheme of action.
Consult of your own ways, and think which handIs best to take. Ben Jonson .
They who thought they could never be secure,except the king were first at their mercy, werewilling to change the hand in carrying on the war.
Clarendon.
29* Advantage ; gain ; superiority.
The French king, supposing to make his handby those rude ravages in England, broke off histreaty of peace, and proclaimed hostility.Hat/ieard .
30. Competition; contest
She in beauty, education, blood,
Holds hand with any princess in the world. Shak.
31. Transmission ; conveyance ; agency ofconveyance.
The salutation by the hand of me Paul.
Coi v. 18.
32. Possession; power.
Sacraments serve as the moral instruments ofGod to that purpose j the use whereof is in ourhands , the effect in his. Hooker.
And though you war, like petty wrangling states,You’re in my hand ; and when 1 bid you cease,You shall be crush’d together into peace. Dryden.
Between the landlord and tenant there must bea quarter of the revenue of the land constantlyin their hands. Locke.
It is fruitless pains to learn a language, whichone may guess by his temper he will wholly ne-glect, as soon as an approach to manhood, settinghim free from a govemour, shall put him into thehands of his own inclination. Locke.
Vectigales Agri were lands taken from the ene-
my, ana distributed amongst the soldiers, or leftin the hands of the proprietors under the conditionof certain duties. Arbuthnot.
33. Pressure of the bridle.
Hollow men, like horses, hot at hand,
Make gallant show and promise of their mettle.
Shakesp.
34. Method of government; discipline ;restraint.
Menelaus bare an heavy hand over the citizens,having a malicious mind against his countrymen.
2 Mac. v. 23.
He kept a strict hand on his nobility, and choseSgther to advance clergymen and lawyers. Bacon ,
However strict a hand is to be kept upon all de-sires of fancy, yet in recreation fancy must bepermitted to speak. Locke.
35. Influence; management.
Flattery, the dang’rous nurse of vice,
Got hand upon his youth, to pleasures bent.Darnel
30. That which performs the office of ahand in pointing.
The body, though it moves, yet not changingperceivable distance with other bodies, as fast asihe ideas of our own minds do naturally followone another, the thing seems to stand still; as isevident in the hands of clocks and shadows ofsun-dials. Locke.
37. Agent; person employed ; a manager.
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The wisest prince, if he can save himselfpeople from ruin, under the worst administra 11 ^what may not his subjects hope forchangeth hands, and maketh use of the best
38. Giver and receiver. j
This tradition is more like to be a notion Jin the mind of man, than transmitted froin .to hand through all generations. Totf’
39- An act; a workman ; a soldier. ^
Your wrongs are known: impose but you*niands,
This hour shall bring you twenty
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40. Catch or reach without choice. ^The men of Israel smote as well the men 0 ,ry city as the beast, and all that came to
A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought ^First fruits, the green ear, and the yello^Uncull’d as came to hand.
4]. Form or cast of writing.
Here is th’ indictment of the good lord BWhich in a set hand fairly is engross’d ;
Eleven hours I’ve spent to write it over., ~, rC fp { 'Solyman shewed him his own letters■ i* 11 . jped, asking him if he knew not thatknew not that seal ? 0 f
Being discovered by their knowledgeCowley’s hand, I happily escaped. *
If my debtors do not keep their day>
Deny their hands, and then refuse to1 must attend. ho^'ii
Whether men write court or Romanany other, there is something peculi^^/^one’s writing. ^ t 3 vL,
The way to teach to write, is to £?y 0 u t 1 ^,graved with the characters of such handy
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witli the contents of the letter. jj,e
I present these thoughts in anscholars are bad penmen, we seldom b |incchanick part of writing. _
They were wrote on both sides, * nhand. _
42. Hand over head. Negligently > jwithout seeing what one does. fSo many strokes of the alarm * ie l. Jjlity 11 ^awaking to other nations, and thetitles, which hand over head have 5
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titles, which hand over head navaturn, doth ring the peal so much A ,e . , n blc% r
A country fellow got an unlucky P
tree: Tims ’tis, says a passenger*will be doing things hand over head, wfear or wit.
43. Hand to hand. Close figM*
In single opposition, hand toHe did confound the best part of
He issues, ere the light, his dnMThat slings afar, and poniards hud F . (<He banish’d from the field.' jpiJ 11
44. Hand in hand. In union*
Had the sea been Marlborough s ^war had been bestowed there, to « lU vc &° lof the country, which would the*in hand with his own. J
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