Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A style of handwriting in which the letters are rounded and full rather than angular.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A style of penmanship in which the letters are round and full.
- n. A style of bowling in cricket in which the arm is brought round horizontally. See round-arm. Imp. Dict.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. a style of penmanship in which the letters are formed in nearly an upright position, and each separately distinct; -- distinguished from
running hand .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a clearly written style of longhand with large round curves
Examples
“Maigret was busy with an unglamorous but nevertheless useful task: pressing the pen firmly on the paper, in his big round hand he was summarising the various pieces of information about the gang of Poles obtained by means of police traps during the past fortnight.”
“Irish round hand is closely akin to the half-uncial character of fifth and sixth century Latin writings found on the Continent.”
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘round hand’.
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Handy Words
List of words and phrases referring to the hand, hands, fist, or derivatives of the Latin manus, beginning with left-handed.
left-handed, double-fisted, fisticuffs, handy, right-handed, two-handed, manual, manumission, manuscript, manually, manustupration, manudiction and 164 more...
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Writing
graphoanalysis, agraphia, agraphic, anorthography, logagraphia, cipher, code, inscribe, penmanship, cursive, Palmer method, calligraphy and 100 more...
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Whatever's at hand
For a more comprehensive list, see Hernesheir's Handy Words.
For trivet's wonderful list of handy compounds, see handie.
hand, hands, handy, handedness, Tristram Shandy, left hand, red-handed, cackhanded, on the other hand, on the one hand, to hand, backhand and 18 more...
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Penmanship
Spencerian method, Palmer method, Platt R. Spencer, cursive, round hand, running hand, handwriting, stylus, pen, vellum, penmanship, script and 86 more...
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