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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The distal part of the forelimb of a vertebrate, including the wrist and hand or the carpus and forefoot.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The hand. Technically, in zoology and anatomy: The distal segment of the fore limb of a vertebrated animal, including all beyond the forearm or fore leg (antebrachium). It is divided into three segments, the carpus, the metacarpus, and the phalanges. See hand. [The word is used to avoid the implication of any difference between “hand” as of a man and “fore foot” as of a quadruped; it is chiefly a morphological term, opposed to pes, which is the corresponding segment of the hind limb. Sometimes called pes anticus.]
2. n. In Roman law: Same as dominium, but more commonly used of power over persons.
3. n. More specifically, the power of a Roman husband over his wife: as, in manu (of a woman), under the marital authority.

Wiktionary

1. n. obsolete A hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a man, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates.
2. n. obsolete, Roman law The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Anat.) The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb