Glad vs. Hand

Gladadjective

Pleased, happy, gratified.

Gladadjective

(obsolete) Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.

Gladverb

To make glad

Gladadjective

Pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; - opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; - said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason.

Gladadjective

Wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness; exhilarating.

Gladverb

To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.

Gladverb

To be glad; to rejoice.

Gladadjective

showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy;

Gladadjective

(`lief' is archaic) very willing;

Gladadjective

feeling happy appreciation;

Gladadjective

cheerful and bright;

Handnoun

The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.

Handnoun

That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.

Handnoun

A limb of certain animals, such as the foot of a hawk, or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.

Handnoun

An index or pointer on a dial; such as the hour and minute hands on the face of an analog clock, which are used to indicate the time of day.

Handnoun

In linear measurement:

Handnoun

Four inches, a hand's breadth.

Handnoun

(obsolete) Three inches.

Handnoun

A side; part, camp; direction, either right or left.

Handnoun

Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.

Handnoun

An agent; a servant, or manual laborer, especially in compounds; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful.

Handnoun

An instance of helping.

Handnoun

Handwriting; style of penmanship.

Handnoun

A person's autograph or signature.

Handnoun

Personal possession; ownership.

Handnoun

Management, domain, control.

Handnoun

That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once.

Handnoun

(card games) The set of cards held by a player.

Handnoun

(tobacco manufacturing) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.

Handnoun

(collective) The collective noun for a bunch of bananas.

Handnoun

Applause.

Handnoun

(historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.

Handnoun

(firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.

Handnoun

A whole rhizome of ginger.

Handnoun

The feel of a fabric; the impression or quality of the fabric as judged qualitatively by the sense of touch.

Handnoun

(archaic) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.

Handnoun

(archaic) Agency in transmission from one person to another.

Handnoun

(obsolete) Rate; price.

Handverb

(transitive) To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively.

Handverb

(transitive) To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct.

Handverb

To manage.

Handverb

To seize; to lay hands on.

Handverb

To pledge by the hand; to handfast.

Handverb

To furl.

Handverb

To cooperate.

Handnoun

That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

Handnoun

That which resembles, or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand

Handnoun

A measure equal to a hand's breadth, - four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.

Handnoun

Side; part; direction, either right or left.

Handnoun

Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.

Handnoun

Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.

Handnoun

An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking.

Handnoun

Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad, or running hand. Hence, a signature.

Handnoun

Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; - usually in the plural.

Handnoun

Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the producer's hand, or when not new.

Handnoun

Rate; price.

Handnoun

That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once

Handnoun

The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.

Handnoun

A gambling game played by American Indians, consisting of guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or the like, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.

Handverb

To give, pass, or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter.

Handverb

To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage.

Handverb

To manage; as, I hand my oar.

Handverb

To seize; to lay hands on.

Handverb

To pledge by the hand; to handfast.

Handverb

To furl; - said of a sail.

Handverb

To coöperate.

Handnoun

the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb;

Handnoun

a hired laborer on a farm or ranch;

Handnoun

something written by hand;

Handnoun

ability;

Handnoun

a position given by its location to the side of an object;

Handnoun

the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time;

Handnoun

one of two sides of an issue;

Handnoun

a rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece;

Handnoun

a unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses;

Handnoun

a member of the crew of a ship;

Handnoun

a card player in a game of bridge;

Handnoun

a round of applause to signify approval;

Handnoun

terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos);

Handnoun

physical assistance;

Handverb

place into the hands or custody of;

Handverb

guide or conduct or usher somewhere;

Handnoun

the end part of a person's arm beyond the wrist, including the palm, fingers, and thumb

Handnoun

a prehensile organ resembling the hand and forming the end part of a limb of various mammals, such as that on all four limbs of a monkey.

Handnoun

a person's arm, including the hand

Handnoun

operated by or held in the hand

Handnoun

done or made manually rather than by machine

Handnoun

a round of applause

Handnoun

a person's handwriting

Handnoun

a pledge of marriage by a woman

Handnoun

a pointer on a clock or watch indicating the passing of units of time

Handnoun

used in reference to the power to direct something

Handnoun

an active role in achieving or influencing something

Handnoun

help in doing something

Handnoun

a person's workmanship, especially in artistic work

Handnoun

a person who does something to a specified standard

Handnoun

a person who engages in manual labour, especially in a factory, on a farm, or on board a ship

Handnoun

the set of cards dealt to a player in a card game

Handnoun

a round or short spell of play in a card game

Handnoun

the cards held by a declarer as opposed to those in the dummy

Handnoun

a unit of measurement of a horse's height, equal to 4 inches (10.16 cm).

Handnoun

a bunch of bananas

Handnoun

a forehock of pork.

Handverb

pick (something) up and give it to (someone)

Handverb

make (abusive, untrue, or otherwise objectionable remarks) to (someone)

Handverb

hold the hand of (someone) in order to guide them in a specified direction

Handverb

take in or furl (a sail)

Hand

A hand is a prehensile, multi-fingered appendage located at the end of the forearm or forelimb of primates such as humans, chimpanzees, monkeys, and lemurs. A few other vertebrates such as the koala (which has two opposable thumbs on each and fingerprints extremely similar to human fingerprints) are often described as having instead of paws on their front limbs.