full-handed
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From full + handed.
Compound parts: full
handed
Inflected forms:
form: more full-handed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most full-handed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fullhanded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more full-handed
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most full-handed
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: fullhanded
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Carrying something, especially something valuable, such as a gift.
pos: adj
examples: He was not only carrying a candle to put the finishing touch to him as a target; he had dispensed with coat and waistcoat downstairs, and was at once full-handed and unarmed
By night we'll all be back at this spot, full-handed or empty-handed, as it may be, but full-handed, I hope.
Had it so been, then for sure the robber had not got off full-handed or without a fight for it.
gloss: Wealthy, having all that is needed.
pos: adj
examples: Mr. Beers came to the country full-handed, with a handsome competency to commence any business he might choose, independent of missionary patronage.
Lady Anna has given away half her money, and may give away the whole if she pleases. She will be the same to me whether she comes full-handed or empty. But when she is my wife her property shall be my property,—and when I die there shall be no such abomination as an eldest son.
...the defendant had been, all the time, since the date of the note sued on, full-handed, in easy circumstances, and able to pay all his debts.
gloss: Enthusiastic and generous.
pos: adj
examples: Have we not the theatre, its triumphs, and full-handed thunders of applause?
Which cast it, that large infidel Your Omar; and your Omar drew Full-handed plaudits from our best
The welcome extended by our brother society to those of our Society who were present exceeded in cordiality and completeness the expectations of those who knew that there would be a warm and full-handed reception, and nothing was lacking in the perfection of arrangements for the meetings and for the comfort and pleasure of our members and their ladies.
By every vessel he wrote; he wrote as he gave and as he loved, in full-handed, full-hearted plenitude.
gloss: Using the palm of the hand or broad gestures.
pos: adj
examples: A spit on the palm and a full-handed slap was a deal but if only fingertips slapped then the bargaining would continue.
As they passed Shack he reached out and gave Helen a massive, full-handed pinch on the buttock and winked at me with relaxed, expansive good cheer.
Genie swung a full-handed slap that sent the gaudily dressed cop staggering back.
The circular strokes on the joints; long, full-handed strokes over the long bones
Then Manuel touched the jangling, jarring little machette to a queer tune, and sang something in Portuguese about "Nina, innocente!" ending with a full-handed sweep that brought the song up with a jerk.
gloss: Having people that fill all positions.
pos: adj
examples: All that was about what you should do in a full-handed hold 'em game when you're the small blind versus a big blind. But, suppose instead that the game is two-handed from the get go.
The switches go in either direction around the triangle, and a player may find himself playing as many as three positions in a full-handed game.
So in the first hour of my lone voyage I had proof that the Spray could at least do better than this full-handed steamship, for I was already farther on my voyage than she.
gloss: Complete; fully qualified or fully equipped.
pos: adj
examples: He regarded his younger brother as a “full-handed man of practice” and himself merely “a supported theorist.”
It was a new and sorry sight for our full-handed American farming men to see those poor, hard Asiatic hands trying, by main strength, to break the tough straw or pull it by the roots.
She had, after all, learned from the same master he had although matched daggers offered no reach compared to a full-handed sword.
It seems to be a full-handed failure. The bankrupts must have a good deal of the values remaining in their hands.
gloss: With full hands; bearing valuables or gifts.
pos: adv
examples: On this occasion the minister came full-handed. He told her, first, as appears from her notes and letters, that he had definitely decided to appoint a Sanitary Committee at the India Office. He read out the list of names;
The want met in this case was that of a delegate to go full-handed from the home to the field, who should in due time return again to the home with pledges from the absent ones;
gloss: As a wealthy person, having all that is needed.
pos: adv
examples: One does not remember one's birth -- one has to be told. But with me it was different; life came to me full-handed and dowered me with all my faculties and powers.
O, Death, we come full-handed to they gate, Rich with strange burden of the mingled years
gloss: Generously and whole-heartedly.
pos: adv
examples: By the promptings of religious instinct and principle, our churches have been built and our asylums founded, and charity full-handed has bestowed her lavish gifts upon the unfortunate.
Art deals with what we see, it must first contribute full-handed that ingredient;
gloss: With the entire hand.
pos: adv
examples: Can scribble, grasping crayon full-handed and awkwardly.
gloss: Fully staffed or with all positions filled.
pos: adv
examples: But if we must run, who are left to run? From Bull Run they ran full-handed. But we have fought until maimed soldiers, women, and children are all that remain to run.
...though in the case of the bakers and confectioners at Winnipeg, the shops and factories concerned are running full-handed and most of the employees affected have obtained employment elsewhere.
gloss: In a complete and fully-formed manner.
pos: adv
examples: Language is also elemental: at the tender dawn of childhood, it enters life with laughing eyes and prattling lips; at maturity's noon, it moves full-handed and deep-voiced in all the concerns of men;
Antonyms: empty-handed
Derived words: full-handedly
full-handedness
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