单词 | writing hand |
释义 | > as lemmaswriting hand writing hand n. (a) the hand with which a person usually writes, esp. the right hand; †(b) Medicine a position of the hand resembling that assumed when holding a pen, thought to be characteristic of Parkinson's disease (obsolete). Π 1651 E. Hall Manus Testium Movens 34 Th[e] right hand is the writing hand, now with that they must give a marke. 1720 Answer to Whimsical Pamphlet 11 You ought to have..your impious Tongue cut out, and thy writing Hand be baked in my Oven when it is hottest. 1877 G. Sigerson tr. J. M. Charcot Lect. Dis. Nerv. Syst. v. 141 (caption) The writing hand. Habitual attitude of the hand at a somewhat advanced stage of paralysis agitans. 1921 M. Keschner in F. Tice et al. Pract. Med. X. 516 The hand may assume a position similar to that in which a pen is held (Charcot's writing hand). 2007 New Yorker 10 Dec. 58/3 My father sat in his favorite yellow chair, writing hand atrophied by some mystery plague, mind afield in a pharmaceutical fog. writing hand b. As a modifier, with the sense ‘engaged for or employed in writing’, as writing class, writing clerk, writing hand. Π 1575 W. Patten Cal. Script. f. 169 Sephar, A rehearsall. A book. Trumpeting. A wryting Clerk. A number. 1772 J. Wedgwood Let. 28 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 136 What were all the rest of the Writing Clerks doing not to observe this. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. vi. 126 My lawyer['s]..writing-clerk (habited as a sharp-shooter) walked to and fro before his door. 1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xiii. §2867 Saving the cost of a writing clerk. 1896 Harper's Mag. June 17 If he ever puts me into one of his books I'll..amputate his writing-hand. 1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy 79 The writing-classes joggled each others' arms and elbows. 1913 State of N.Y. Hosp. Bull. 6 383 Very bright in school.., efficient in his work as writing clerk and bookkeeper being very accurate in his accounts. < as lemmas |
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