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noun

hands n.

A person's power or discretionary action; as, my fate is in your hands.

Synonyms: custody.

The force of workers available; as, all hands on deck.

Synonyms: work force, manpower, men. "A dictionary containing a natural history requires too many hands, as well as too much time, ever to be hoped for."

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Etymology of 'Hands'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... has less density, hardness and luster than true anthracite, and can be distinguished from it by the fact that when newly fractured it will soot the hands. Its specific gravity is ordinarily about 1.4. It kindles quite readily and burns more freely ...

— Steam, Its Generation and Use • Babcock & Wilcox Co.

... not only the heart, but also the capillary system, as is shown in the complexion of the face and the color of the hands. In moderate drinkers the face is only flushed, but in drunkards it is purplish. The flush attending the early stages of drinking is, of course, not the flush of health, ...

— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell

... not of the scene before him. Sorrow unspeakable was upon his spirit in that lonely hour; and, hiding his face in his hands, ...

— Hyperion • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... and probably at dances. It was not necessarily a badge of a chief. In excavations made at East Machias, an Indian was found with a copper head-band and the remnant of a woven tiara. These relics are now in the hands of Dr. Shehan, of Edmunds, Maine. Copper head-bands have repeatedly been found on the skulls of Mound Indians. When a boy, I myself was present at the work of excavating an Indian burial place on the banks of Charles River, near the end of Maple ...

— Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore • J. Walter Fewkes

... at all that there were seals on the ice that day? Known? Why, Mark Seaforth had gone all along the coast telling them early in the morning. He had got the news from the lighthouse, and it was the oldest of customs to give all hands a chance whenever the seals were sighted ...

— Labrador Days - Tales of the Sea Toilers • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

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