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paw of a beafl, power, ability, means, afTiftancej endeavour, 

 contrivance, a border, extremity, fide, a trad, tenons, (refembling 

 hands) ftays, projeding fulcra, axes, axie-trees, parts, portions. 

 Giving the hand to another was a token of fubmiffion. Homrige 

 is ftill preferved in many places by the pcrfons who do the 

 homage, kneeling down and putting his hands between the hands 

 of the Lord. Ezekiah commands the children of Ifrael to give the 

 hand unto Jehovah, that is, to fubmit themfelves or afcribe the 

 fuperiority to him. Thus the Heathens, ftretching out their hands 

 to Heaven, did acknowledge the power, and implore the affiflance 

 of their refpedivc Gods. 



, " daplices tendunt ad fidera palmas." 



In the Arabic language o.j jed, fignifies the hand, power, 

 vigour, ftrength, affiftance, aid, protection, a benefit, fervice, 

 furrender, fubmiffion ; ^jJj <i^j i/n yedth, literally, between his 

 hands, fignifies, before him, in his prefence. The word in Hebrew 

 and Arabic is alfo applied to penitence, to confeffion, or as we 

 fay, to make appear as plain as the palm of the hand. 



In the Perfian, the word ci'-^^ deft, a hand *, fignifies power, 

 ftrength, pre-excellencc, fuperiority, vidory, end, termination, 

 limit, boundary ; hence deftan, a key, pin or peg of a mufical 

 inlirument. Ligatura in collo inftrumenti muftci, a deft ma?tus, 

 quce illis iwpoftta chordce variat tonas f . Defte, a handful, a 



• In Irifh deas, the right hand. 

 t Goiius, p. 826i 



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