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Wednesday 6 April 2011

Left-handed: a Definition

Definition – Left-handedness

[Noun] Habitual use of the left hand, or rather the ability to use the left hand with more ease and strength than the right.

Source: Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.

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Definition - Left-handed

adj
1. using the left hand with greater ease than the right
2. performed with the left hand
3. designed or adapted for use by the left hand
4. worn on the left hand
5. awkward or clumsy
6. ironically ambiguous a left-handed compliment
7. turning from right to left; anticlockwise
8. (Historical Terms) (Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) Law another term for morganatic
adv
with the left hand
left-handedly  adv
left-handedness  n

Source: Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003


Originally posted on Wednesday, 06 April 2011

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