† fine-handadj.
Obsolete.
Written in a fine or delicate hand. Also: designed for or suited to writing in a fine hand. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [adjective] > delicate
fine-hand1827
1827 Amer. Farmer 12 Jan. 344/2 The parent or teacher should give the first fine hand copies in the same words as the coarse hand.
1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 154 I want a fine-hand copy.
1846 Knickerbocker 27 279 How many recollections of early school-days,..of coarse and fine-hand pens.
1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 228 From this rock the horse-trail climbs to the right for Nevada Fall and a fine-hand affair, a foot-trail, trends up to the left of Vernal Fall.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
adj.1827