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noun

hands n.

A person's power or discretionary action; as, my fate is in your hands.

Synonyms: custody.

The force of workers available; as, all hands on deck.

Synonyms: work force, manpower, men. "A dictionary containing a natural history requires too many hands, as well as too much time, ever to be hoped for."

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Etymology of 'Hands'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hands" Quotes from Famous Books

... soldier of Europe for this most arduous and difficult position. He went accordingly. The result increased his reputation for ability and courage; but Candia was doomed, and its chief fortress fell into the hands of the infidels, after a protracted struggle, which is said to have cost them a hundred and eighty thousand men. [Footnote: Oraison funebre du Comte de Frontenac, par le Pere Olivier Goyer. A powerful French contingent, under another command, co-operated ...

— Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV • Francis Parkman

... yourself I'll send you to bed,' said Elsie; and he ducked his head obediently into her lap, as Polly, with her hands clasping her knees, and with the firelight dancing over her bright face, leaned forward ...

— A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... herself, Beatrix laughed at the logical application of her metaphor. Stout, energetic Mrs. Stanley was so like a greedy young turkey snapping up the crumbs dropped from the hands of ...

— The Dominant Strain • Anna Chapin Ray

... services. The police discovered that M. Madeleine was no other than an ex-convict who had broken his ban, condemned in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean has been recommitted to prison. It appears that previous to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and which he had, moreover, and by perfectly legitimate means, acquired in his business. No one has been able to discover where Jean Valjean has concealed this money since ...

— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... How jealous have not men been as to allowing them any share worthy the name of reason! But you may see a greater difference in this respect between the lowest and the highest at a common school, than you will between them and us. A pony that has taught itself without hands to pump water for its thirst, an elephant that puts forth its mighty lip to lift the moving wheel of the heavy wagon over the body of its fallen driver, has rather more to plead on the score of intellect than many a schoolboy. ...

— Paul Faber, Surgeon • George MacDonald

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