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Out of them-you dare.take in hand-to lay open the ori¬ 
ginal of fuch a nation. Spenfer on Ireland. —Manner of ga¬ 
thering or taking.—As her majefty hath received great 
profit, fo may Hie, by a moderate hand, from time to 
time reap the like. Bacon. —Workmanlhip ; power or 
adt of manufacturing or making.—An intelligent being, 
Coming out of th z.kands of infinite perfection, with an 
averfion to be reunited with its Author, the fource of 
its utmoft felicity,.is fuch a deformity in the beautiful 
analogy of things, as is not confident with finite wifdom 
and perfection. Cheyne. —Manner ofaCting or performing: 
The matter faw the madnefs rife'; 
His glowing cheeks, his ardent.eyes ; 
And,while he heav.’n and earth defy’d, 
Chang’d his hand and check’d his pride. Dryden. 
Agency; part in aCtion.—God mult have fet a more 
than ordinary efteem upon that which David was not 
thought fit to have an hand in. South .—The aCt of giv¬ 
ing or prefenting.—'Let Tamar drefs the meat in my 
Tight, that I may eat it at her hand', z Sam. xiii. 5. 
To-night the poet’s advocate I (land, 
And he deferves the favour at my' hand. Addifon. 
A-dt of receiving any thing ready at one’s hand, when it 
only waits to be taken.—His power reaches no- farther 
than to compound and divide the materials that are 
made to his hand ; but can do nothing towards the mak- 
. ing or deftvoying one atom of what is already in being. 
Locke. — Care; neceflity of managing : 
When a fiatefman wants a day’s defence, 
•Or envy holds a whole week’s war with fenfe, 
Or limple pride for flatt’ry makes demands, 
May dunce by dunce be whittled off my hands. Pope. 
Difcharge of duty.—Let it therefore be required, on 
both parts, at the hands of the clergy, to be in mean- 
nefs of eftatc like the apoftles; at the hands of the laity, 
to be as they who lived under the apoftles. Hocker. — 
Reach; nearnefs: as, at hand, within reach, near, ap¬ 
proaching.—Any light thing that moveth, when we find 
no wind, fhew'eth a wind at hand. Bacon. 
Coufins, I hope the days are near at hand, 
That chambers will be fafe. Shakefpcare. 
Mutual management: 
Nor fwords at hand, nor hiding darts afar, 
Are doom’d Havenge the tedious bloody war. Dryden. 
State of heing in preparation ; 
Where is our ufual manager of mirth ? 
What revels are in hand? Is there no play, 
To eafe the anguilh of a torturing hour? Shakefpcare. 
State of being in prefent agitation.—It is indifferent to 
the matter in hand which way the learned fhall determine 
of it. Locke. —Cards held at a game.—There never was 
a hand drawn, that did double the reft of the habitable 
world, before this. Bacon. —That which is ufed in op- 
pofition to another: 
He would difpute 
Confute, change hands, and Hill confute. Hudibras. 
Scheme of action.—Confult of your own ways, and think 
which hand is bed to take. Bcnjovfon. —Advantage ; gain; 
fuperiority.—The French king, fuppofing to make his 
.hand by thofe rude ravages in England, broke oft his 
treaty of peace, and proclaimed hoftility. Hayward. — 
Competition ; conteft : 
She in beauty, education, 1 blood, 
Holds hand with any princefs in the world. Shakefpcare. 
Tranfmiffion ; conveyance ; agency of conveyance.—The 
fakitatibn by the hand of me Paul. Col. v. 18.—Poileffion 
power.-—Sacraments ferve as the moral inftruments of 
God ; the-life whereof is in our hands, the effect in his. 
Hooker. 
N D. 
And though you war, like petty wrangling Rates, 
You’re in my hand; and when I bid you ceafe, . 
You fhall be cnjfh’d together into peace. Dryden. 
Preffure of the bridle : 
Hollow men, like-horfes, hot at hand, 
Make gallant fhow, and promife of their mettle. Sliakefp. 
Method of government; difcipline;. reftraint.—Menelaus 
bare an heavy hand over the citizens, having-a malicious 
mind againft his countrymen, 2 Mac, v. 23.—Influence;: 
management: 
Flattery, the dang’rous nurfe of vice, 1 ! 
Got hand upon his youth, to pleafures bent. Daniel. 
That which performs the office of a hand in pointing.— 
The body, though it moves,' yet not changing perceiv¬ 
able diffance with other bodies, as fall as the ideas of 
our own minds do naturally follow one another, the 
thing feems to ftand Hill; as is evident in the hands of 
clocks and fhadows of fun-dials. Locke. —Agent; perfon 
employed ; a manager.—The .wifeft prince, if he can 
fave himfelf and his people from ruin, under the word 
adminiftration, what may not liis fubjedts hope for when 
he ehangeth hands,' and maketh ufe of the belt ? Swift.~~ 
Giver and receiver.—This tradition is more like to be a 
notion bred in the mind of man, than tranfmitted from 
kand to hand through all generations. Tillotfon. —An adt; 
a workman ; a foldier.—A didlionary containing a natu¬ 
ral hiftory requires too many hands, as w'ell as too much 
time, ever to be hoped for. Locke. 
Your wrongs are known : impofe but your commands, , 
This hour fhall bring you twenty thoufand hands. Dryden.. 
Catch or reach without choice.—The men of Ifrael 
fmote as well the men of every city as the beads and. all 
that came to hand. Judges. 
A fweaty reaper from his tillage brought 
Firft fruits, the green ear, and the yellow fheaf, 
Uncull’d as came to hand. Milton. 
Form or call of writing.—Whether men write court or 
Roman hand, or any ether, there is fomething peculiar 
in every one’s writing. Cockburn. 
Here is th’ indictment of the good lord Haftings, 
Which in a fet hand fairly is engrofs’d ; 
Eleven hours I’ve fpent to write it over. Shakefpeare. 
Hand over Head. Negligently ; rafhly ; without fee¬ 
ing what one does.—A country fellow got an unlucky 
tumble from a tree : Thus ’tis, fays a palfenger, when 
people will be doing things handover head, without either 
fear or wit. L’Eflrange. 
Hand to Hand. Clofe fight : 
In fingle oppofition hand to hand, 
He did - confound the beft part of an hour. Shakefpeare. 
Hand in Hand. In union ; conjointly.—Had the fea 
been Marlborough’s element, the war had been beftowed 
there, to the advantage of the country, which would 
then have gone hand in hand with his own. Swift. —Fit; 
pat.—As fair and as good, a kind of hand in hand com- 
parifon, had been fomething too fair and too good for 
any lady in Britanny. Shakefpeare. 
Hand to Mouth. As want requires.—I can get bread 
from hand to mouth, and make even at the year’s end v 
L'EJlrange. 
To bear in Hand! To keep in expedfation ; to elude. 
—A rafcally yc.:-forfooth knave, to bear in hand , and 
then ffand upon Lxurity.' Shakefpecre. 
To be Hand and Glove. To be intimate and familiar ; 
to fuit one another. 
To HAND, v. a. To give or tranfmit with the hand. 
—I have been fhewn a written prophecy that is handed 
among them with great fecrecy. Addifon. —To guide or 
lead by the hand.—By fafe and inlenfible degrees he 
will pals from a boy to a man, which is the moft ha¬ 
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