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Definition of Handless

1. Adjective. Without a hand or hands. "A handless war veteran"

2. Adjective. Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands. "Could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"

Definition of Handless

1. a. Without a hand.

Definition of Handless

1. Adjective. Without a hand. ¹

2. Adjective. Without a handle. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Handless

1. having no hands [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Handless

handleable handlebar handlebar moustache handlebar moustaches handlebar mustache handlebar mustaches handlebars handlebodies handlebody handled

handled the ball handleless handler handlers handles handless (current term) handlike handline handling handling (psychology)

handling charge handling cost handlings handlist handlists handlock handloom handlooms handly handmade

Literary usage of Handless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. German Popular Tales and Household Stories by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (1869)
"THE handless MAIDEN. self quite clean and made a circle around herself with chalk. Quite early came the Evil One, but he could not ..."

2. Atharva-veda Saṁhitā by William Dwight Whitney (1905)
"The handless shaft, O gods, which ye cast at the handless ones — I hew [off] the ... handless be the assailing foe — they who come with armies to fight us; ..."

3. An Italian and English Dictionary with Pronunciation and Brief Etymologies by August Hjalmar Edgren, Giuseppe Bico, John Lawrence Gerig (1901)
"i, ADJ. : monastical. mon c/'crino, и.: handless arm. ... -o/tino, M. : handless arm. ||mon-oo [manco], ADJ. : one-handed (maimed); M. : one-handed person, ..."

4. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"... mair can have a handle handless. The Brigs of Ayr. /o. But wha wad keep the handless coof, S. О can ye labour Uat Handsome. I'll love my handsome Nell ..."

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