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Definition of Freehand
1. Adjective. Done by hand without mechanical aids or devices. "A freehand drawing"
Definition of Freehand
1. a. Done by the hand, without support, or the guidance of instruments; as, free- hand drawing. See under Drawing.
Definition of Freehand
1. Adjective. Drawn using the hand without any helping device. ¹
2. Verb. To conduct a procedure involving use of the hands without any helping device or guide. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Freehand
1. drawn by hand without mechanical aids [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freehand
Literary usage of Freehand
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum ...by George Knottesford Fortescue by George Knottesford Fortescue (1902)
"Elementary: freehand: Model and Object Drawing : Drawing Books and Copies, etc.
.... HEALD (FB) Sedgebrook Series of 2nd Grade freehand Drawing cards. ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"All one has to do is to imitate freehand the characteristic common ... But within
these types the freehand method far surpasses analysis in its power of ..."
3. Shop Sketching by Joseph William Woolley, Roy Brodhead Meredith (1913)
"117 illustrates the use of this paper in freehand work. ... In all work in freehand
sketching, the pencils should be kept well sharpened, ..."
4. A Manual of Field and Office Methods for the Use of Students in Surveying by William David Pence, Milo Smith Ketchum (1904)
"The student should not be content until he can make letters freehand so well that a
... freehand Titles.—Good freehand titles suffice for most drawings, ..."
5. Cyclopedia of Architecture, Carpentry and Building: A General Reference Work by American School, (Chicago, Ill.) (1907)
"Out side of its general educational value freehand drawing is as absolutely
essential to ... The study of freehand drawing from solid forms in teaching the ..."
6. Mechanical Drawing by John Simpson Reid (1919)
"CHAPTER III freehand LETTERING AND GEOMETRICAL DRAWING ONE of the important parts
of a commercial working drawing is the lettering including figures. ..."
7. Topographic Maps and Sketch Mapping by James Kip Finch (1920)
"CHAPTER I TOPOGRAPHIC DRAFTING ART. 19. freehand LETTERING A LARGE number of
books* have been published on this subject and ..."
8. Cyclopedia of Drawing by American school of correspondence at Armour institute of technology, Chicago (1906)
"freehand PERSPECTIVE.* 19. The Horizon Line or Eye Level. This, as the name
implies, is an imaginary horizontal line on a level with the eye. ..."
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