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† hendy, a. Obs.
Also 3 hendi.
[f. hend a. + -y. (OE. had -hendiᵹ in list-hendiᵹ skilful-handed.)]
= hend a. (with various shades of meaning).
c1205Lay. 4833 An oðer stret he makede swiðe hendi. a1225Ancr. R. 186 Þeonne beo ȝe his hendi children þet cusseð þe ȝerden þet he haueð ou mid iðrosschen. c1275XI Pains of Hell 289 in O.E. Misc. 155 He is curteys and hendy. c1375Sir Beues (E.) (1886) 181/1 When Iosyan sawȝ þat hendy knyȝt, In here herte sche wax full lyȝt.
b. absol. or as n.
a1310in Wright Lyric P. v. 27 He haveth me to hede this hendy a-non. |