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- noun Plural form of
hande .
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Examples
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Three fellowes wenten into a pubbe, And gleefullye their handes did rubbe
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Wherat the gentlemen [of Elizabeth's household] sayd that they trused for more fauour at hys handes, considering her personage .. .100
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Their handes all with vomit greased, The donkey was not pleased
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BTW, the 1549 BCP has this after the water: "Then the Godfathers and Godmothers shall take and lay theyr handes upon the childe, and the minister shall put upon him his white vesture, commonly called the Crisome."
Hands off the baby? Fr Timothy Matkin 2007
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Sweet mvses come & lend your helpinge handes to Rule my penne which quakinge standes to write ffeare bides me stay but hope doth egge me on to putt in practize what's my hartes delight ffayne would I write so 'twere without offence
On 'the' in maybe Shakespeare DC 2006
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Sweet mvses come & lend your helpinge handes to Rule my penne which quakinge standes to write ffeare bides me stay but hope doth egge me on to putt in practize what's my hartes delight ffayne would I write so 'twere without offence
Archive 2006-12-01 DC 2006
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By the brothers, cosens, vncles, great grand sires and such like acquaintaunce of their ghestes, they drink of the best, they sit rente free, they haue their owne Table spreade to their handes, without wearing the strings of theor pursse, or any thing else, but householde and honestie.
The More Things Change II Heo 2006
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Currently we are using Zimbra for internal communications which partly handes this job. reply
Zenbe: Next-Generation Webmail, With A Platform Twist Mark Hendrickson 2005
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Also when they will prouoke any man, they pul him by the eares to the drinke, and lug and drawe him strongly to stretch out his throate clapping their handes and dauncing before him.
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Aftre he commanded to the princypales of the 7 lynages, that every of hem scholde brynge his eldest sone before him, and with here owne handes smyten of here hedes, with outen taryenge.
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