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Definition of Handlike
1. resembling a hand [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handlike
Literary usage of Handlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1893)
"... the five toes very distinct and much spread, and, including the scrape of the
snow before the foot came to its bearing, is somewhat handlike. ..."
2. The Natural History of Some Common Animals: A Book of Animal Life by Charles George Douglas Roberts (1904)
"It held its small, handlike fore paws tucked up under its chin, and swam with
quick strokes of its strong hind legs and ..."
3. Textiles: A Handbook for the Student and the Consumer by Mary Schenck Woolman, Ellen Beers Mcgowan (1920)
"Coarse handlike wood contrivances (See Fig. 18) aided in the opening (carding)
of the wool or other fibers, so that they could be twisted more easily into ..."
4. The Normal Child and Primary Education by Beatrice Chandler Gesell, Arnold Gesell (1912)
"The cleverness of the raccoon in the manipulation of his handlike claws also is
characteristic' and bespeaks a high degree of intelligence, such as Davis ..."
5. Principles of human physiology by William Benjamin Carpenter (1876)
"... considering it to be specially distinguished by the possession of two hands
from the QUADRUMANA, which possess four nearly similar handlike extremities. ..."
6. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1867)
"This name was given by Каир to a mammalian animal, supposed to have produced the
handlike impressions on the Triassic sandstones of Hildburghausen and ..."
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