单词 | wide-handed |
释义 | > as lemmaswide-handed wide-handed adj. having or resembling a wide hand or hands; (figurative) open-handed, generous. ΚΠ 1600 N. Breton Pasquils Fooles-cap (rev. ed.) sig. B4v In the aime of Wisdomes eye, Wide handed Wits will euer shoote awry. 1638 R. Brathwait Psalmes David iv. civ. 203 This sea, so great wide-handed deep. 1783 tr. C. Linnaeus Syst. Veg. II. 725 M[omordica] pomes angled tubercled, leaves smooth wide-handed. 1845 New Monthly Belle Assemblée Dec. 336/1 His general intelligence, proved skill, and wide-handed benevolence. 2013 F. Burton & S. M. Katz Under Fire xiii. 137 The situation warranted a razor-sharp slice and not a wide-handed slap. < as lemmas |
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