Lexic.us

Definition of Running hand

1. Noun. Rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Running Hand

Literary usage of Running hand

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

1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Among the authors of the past, Gray, Moore, Leigh Hunt, Walter Scott, and Buchanan Head possessed a pleasing running hand which also failed to express any ..."

2. Plans for the Government and Liberal Instruction of Boys, in Large Numbers by Arthur Hill, Matthew Davenport Hill (1822)
"THE most important branch of penmanship is undoubtedly the plain manuscript, which we call running hand. All the larger hands ought to be considered useful, ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1829)
"... up twice as many seconds in writing, at the same syllables would in running- hand. ... but could any of his own running-hand manuscripts be discovered, ..."

4. Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms by Guido Bruno (1922)
""James Monroe wrote a very running hand, crowding his letters together and often going ... "James Buchanan wrote a round, running hand, sometimes large and ..."

5. China and the Chinese: A General Description of the Country and Its by John Livingston Nevius (1869)
"The fourth, hing shu,or running hand, is the common hand of a neat writer. ... The. two differ so much that the running hand can not be read without a ..."

6. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"... running, ready, easy, fluent, voluble; 2. well known, familiar (ginem, to one); cine ge i)anb(fd)rift), running hand; ..."

7. Ulster Journal of Archaeology by Ulster Archaeological Society (1860)
"Westwood shows that the letters so long supposed to he peculiar to the Irish and Anglo-Saxons (round-hand as well as running-hand,) occur in almost ..."

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