well-handed

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Skillful at manual tasks.
    — Thomas DeGrey outlined the basic surgical skills as including the ability to: 'Cauterize well, to let blood well, to be light and well-handed, bold and hardy in dressing of a Horse well'.
  2. Skillfully put together.
    — But the interest of a well-handed argument is, perhaps, as strong an influence as any which can be exerted to control attention.
  3. Having well-formed hands (and arms)
    — May the divine Savitri, the well-handed, well-fingered, and well-armed, clear thee by his might!'
  4. Having plenty of support.
    — ... but it also teaches you the value of organization, it shows you the real meaning and import of a well-handed force that makes for good, it sharpens your wit in debate, it loosens your tongue in the right way and in proper channels, and it instills into you a knowledge of parliamentary law and practice that must needs....
  5. Well-supplied with slaves. Jamaica,obsolete
    — On all estates, the boiling goes on night and day, except sunday. But well-handed estates have three spells, and intermissions accordingly.

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