Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Handwriting done rapidly without lifting the pen from the paper.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. a style of rapid writing in which the letters are usually slanted and the words formed without lifting the pen; -- distinguished from round hand.
WordNet 3.0
- n. rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper
Examples
“This they undertook to do, by main strength and sweat, running hand over hand the float-line of a net.”
“The Shikastah (broken hand) everywhere represents our running hand and becomes a hard task to the reader.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘running 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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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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