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Definition of Left hand
1. Noun. The hand that is on the left side of the body. "Jab with your left"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Left Hand
Literary usage of Left hand
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1908)
"In the course of the whole series of experiments, the same figures were used
twice, once in testing the right hand and once in testing the left hand, ..."
2. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1912)
"^Portia gives her left hand to Bassanio, who is C; her right hand to Antonio,
who is L. They all go up steps and off R. 199 ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"The average right- hand movement was 241.5 mm ; the average left-hand movement
247 mm. In three cases the left-hand movement was distinctly longer, ..."
4. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1902)
"With the index finger of the left hand take up from the proximal side the ...
Hold the string in the left hand so that a long loop hangs down from it. ..."
5. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"Second step of author's left hand knot. The position of the long thread and that
in which the shod end is placed by a twist of the hand. Fig. ID. ..."
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