单词 | handed |
释义 | handedadj. 1. a. Having a hand or hands of a specified kind; esp. in parasynthetic compounds, as empty-handed, firm-handed, left-handed, open-handed, quick-handed, right-handed, etc.Many of the more prominent compounds are treated more fully elsewhere, as main entries or at the first element. ΚΠ OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 103 Mancus, wohhandede. c1225 ( Ælfric Gram. (Worcester) 288 Unimanus, onhondode [OE St. John's Oxf. anhyrde, OE Durh. anhende, OE Cambr. Univ. Libr. anhande]. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 51v A womman is noȝt lift honded & riȝt honded. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 365 Oon handyd, mancus. 1485 Malory's Mort Darthur (Caxton) vii. i. sig. mij He was large and long and brode in the sholders & wel vysaged and the fayrest and the largest handed that euer man sawe. a1500 (?a1425) Ipomedon (Harl.) (1889) l. 2057 (MED) They hewyd the gloves of his hand; All bare-handyd faught þis knyght. 1505 F. Marsin et al. Rep. Queen of Naples (modernized text) in J. Gairdner Historia Regis Henrici Septimi (1858) 232 The fingers of the said queen be right fair and small, and of a meetly length and breadth before, according unto her personage very fair handed. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Lev. xxi. 20 None that hath any blemysh shall come nere: whether he be..broken foted or broken handed or croke backed, or perleyed, or gogeleyed. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Gii Ye are bothe well handyd. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Handed longe, or longe handes hauynge. 1576 E. Dering XXVII Lect. Epist. Hebrues xxi. sig. Z.viii The filthie stinking priesthood of a greasie handed pope. 1611 Bible (King James) Lev. xxi. 19 A man that is broken footed, or broken handed . View more context for this quotation 1628 W. Prynne Vnlouelinesse of Louelockes 40 Euery Runnagado, Light-footed, or False-handed Irish-boy. 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iii. xxv. 351 Large-hearted and liberall-handed true Christians. 1759 W. Mason Caractacus 37 Plucks from firm-handed Providence, The golden reins of sublunary sway. 1774 M. P. Andrews New Musical Interlude: Election 2 Tho' I oft am mealy-handed, I am not mealy-mouth'd likewise. 1822 J. Hogg Three Perils of Man II. i. 34 What's come o' our supper,..that you are coming toom-handed? 1833 Johnstone's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 90/1 A clever rattle-handed lass. 1860 W. Webb in Med. Times 15 Sept. 266/2 Soft-handed effeminates. 1894 Ld. Wolseley Life Marlborough II. xlix. 40 A peculiarly indulgent or open-handed master. 1908 Daily Chron. 26 Sept. 3/4 It is extremely difficult to get the really competent quick-handed girls both to come to Garden City and to stay there. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring i. ii. 62 A clever-handed and quiet-footed little people. 2006 N.Y. Times Mag. 12 Feb. 45/1 Every parent seems to understand his or her small-mouthed, small-handed child won't get very far with a craggy Red Delicious. b. Of an animal: having forefeet that resemble hands or function as hands. Now rare.With quot. 1840, compare four-handed adj. 1 and two-handed adj. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [adjective] > having one-handedc1225 handed1613 manual1646 bimanous1832 two-handed1847 thousand-handed1870 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 816 It hath the body of a Fox, handed and footed like a Monkie. 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden ii. iii. 1781 Nor handed moles, nor beaked worms return. 1840 W. C. L. Martin Nat. Hist. Quadrupeds 77 This extent of motion, which handed animals alone enjoy. 1946 B. Spencer Aegean Islands 32 The handed mole to its earth, the stoat to the dark. ΚΠ 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge To Rdr. sig. b8 We and others of the Handed Philosophers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > appearance of plant > form of plant or that has parts of particular shape > [adjective] > having particular shape or shaped parts jagged1548 crowned1578 fingered1597 handed1597 hooded1597 unbranched1665 starred1693 bell-like1754 bell-shaped1758 campaniform1758 columniferous1785 gladiate1793 bottlebrush1798 antlereda1806 muscariform1839 sagittiferous1858 crested1861 unseptated1899 unseptate1900 palmiform1962 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. civ. 171 Serapias Candido flore. White handed Orchis. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1343 And then there are the handed Orchides, to be entreated of lastly, which are so-called because their rootes are flat like hands. 1650 W. How Phytologia Britannica 111 Handed Housleek or Sengreen. 1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 472 Handed fucus. 1787 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. (ed. 2) xxvii. 415 Two very common species with palmate, or handed bulbs, are the broad-leavd and spotted Orchis, generally found in moist meadows. 1810 tr. J. Landt Descr. Feroe Islands ii. 185 Orchis latifolia. Male-handed orchis. Grows at Næes in Osteroe. 1888 Midland Naturalist 11 20 Orchis, handed. Cradley Park. Very rare. 3. Of a lock or other door fitting: suitable for use on a door opening either to the right or to the left, but not both; (of a tool) designed to be used exclusively by right-handed (or by left-handed) persons. Cf. right-handed adj. 3b, left-handed adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > [adjective] > favouring one side right-handeda1398 left-handeda1425 left hand1440 left-legged1606 sinister1818 katy-handed1822 left-footed1832 right-sided1850 cack-handed1854 dextral1871 sinistral1871 left-sided1875 lefty1886 southpaw1886 handed1910 molly-dook1941 society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [adjective] > worked by hand handlya1400 manual1583 hand-worked1842 handed1977 1910 U.S. Patent 956,000 1/2 The invention further contemplates so constructing this lock operating mechanism that it may be adapted to be used either with a so-called ‘handed’ lock or ‘right and left-hand’ lock. 1977 C. Blakemore Mech. of Mind v. 149 (caption) Common handedness amongst a group of people would have allowed them to develop more complicated ‘handed’ tools which could then have been shared by all those with the same dominant hand. 1982 P. Marsh Illustr. Dict. Building 125/1 In the USA..the terminology differs, and even in the UK various items of ironmongery are also handed and may not correspond to the hand of the door. 2000 U.S. Patent 6,077,006 1 The invention makes it possible for the manufacturer of the load carrier to buy only one type of twist lock and thus avoid inventory imbalances and mistakes when fitting a handed lock. 4. Having either rightward or leftward direction; characterized by or producing either clockwise or anticlockwise rotation; (Chemistry) chiral. Cf. right-handed adj. 5, left-handed adj. 3, and handedness n. 2. ΚΠ 1916 Machinery (London) 8 159/1 The mandrel block..may be locked in any of these positions by the handed nut. 1939 Automobile Engineer 29 219/1 The symmetrical method of construction which is a feature of General Motors engines is used to advantage on these marine models to provided handed pairs of engines. 1972 C. Mudie Motor Boats & Boating 110 Most twin engined boats are arranged so that the propellers have handed rotation, usually outboard, which balances out the torque effect. 1991 S. F. Mason Chem. Evol. xi. 134 Optically active organic molecules with a handed structure. 2001 J. C. Taylor Hidden Unity Nature's Laws (2002) xii. 239 If a handed molecule exists, the mirror symmetry of electromagnetism implies that its mirror image must also exist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.OE |
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