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Handed   /hˈændəd/  /hˈændɪd/   Listen
verb
Hand  v. t.  (past & past part. handed; pres. part. handing)  
1.
To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter.
2.
To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage.
3.
To manage; as, I hand my oar. (Obs.)
4.
To seize; to lay hands on. (Obs.)
5.
To pledge by the hand; to handfast. (R.)
6.
(Naut.) To furl; said of a sail.
To hand down, to transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor; as, fables are handed down from age to age; to forward to the proper officer (the decision of a higher court); as, the Clerk of the Court of Appeals handed down its decision.
To hand over, to yield control of; to surrender; to deliver up.


Hand  v. i.  To cooperate. (Obs.)


adjective
Handed  adj.  
1.
With hands joined; hand in hand. "Into their inmost bower, Handed they went."
2.
Having a peculiar or characteristic hand. "As poisonous tongued as handed." Note: Handed is used in composition in the sense of having (such or so many) hands; as, bloody-handed; free-handed; heavy-handed; left-handed; single-handed.





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"Handed" Quotes from Famous Books



... if it killed them. Honest, for a bunch of knockers, perfect both in single handed knocking and team work, our set has anything bound to the bannister ...
— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey
... Tommy handed it over with an affectionate look at its smooth handle. Dan examined it carefully, then putting it into his pocket, walked ...
— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott
... spirit had been handed down from the seventeenth-century sects, through the colonial charters. As early as 1638 a Connecticut preacher said: "The choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people, by God's own allowance. They who have ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
... had brought an additional interest to the morning budget. Her letters were invariably examined with bland curiosity and handed on to her with comments appropriate to their appearance. Occasionally envelopes with an Australian postmark reached her, and these always excited especial notice. The brief spell of Avery's married ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
... brought, and amongst others there was one from a sister of Sir Thomas Lawrence (Mrs. Bloxam), enclosing a letter of her brother's, having heard that Sir Walter had expressed a wish to have some memorial of him, "rather of his pencil than his pen," said he, as he handed the letter to me, who, as a collector of autographs, would probably value them more than he did; and on referring to Mrs. Bloxam's letter I find the Edinburgh ...
— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier


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