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Definition: FREE-HANDED

Part of Speech Definition
Adjective 1. Open-handed; liberal.[Websters]
2. Being generous, bounteous, lavish, liberal or bountiful. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. Being munificent. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. Being handsome. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb free-handedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(free-handedly)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective free-handed.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Free-handed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Definition: FREE-HANDED

Part of SpeechDefinition
Adjective1. Open-handed; liberal.[Websters]
2. Being generous, bounteous, lavish, liberal or bountiful. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. Being munificent. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. Being handsome. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb free-handedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(free-handedly)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective free-handed.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "FREE-HANDED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)