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Handy   /hˈændi/   Listen
adjective
Handy  adj.  (compar. handier; superl. handiest)  
1.
Performed by the hand. (Obs.) "To draw up and come to handy strokes."
2.
Skillful in using the hand; dexterous; ready; adroit. "Each is handy in his way."
3.
Ready to the hand; near; also, suited to the use of the hand; convenient; valuable for reference or use; as, my tools are handy; a handy volume.
4.
(Naut.) Easily managed; obedient to the helm; said of a vessel.





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"Handy" Quotes from Famous Books



... for show," answered Gaston, affecting an air of wisdom, "but it is deemed handy sometimes. It does all sorts of business that you would never think of. A ...
— The Champdoce Mystery • Emile Gaboriau
... a large fire on the shore, and went into the woods to cut down bamboos and rattans; then we set to work to stop the holes, which decreased fast enough under our handy-work upon ...
— Adventures in the Philippine Islands • Paul P. de La Gironiere
... good novels too: no man of sense will deny that they are far better than our dilettantism of the slums, or our religious and social tracts in the disguise of romance. If there is no new tale of treasure and bandits and fights and lions handy, may I have a fashionable novel in French to fall back upon! Even Count Tolstoi does not disdain the genre. There is some uncommonly high life in Anna Karenine. He adds a great deal of psychology, to be ...
— Essays in Little • Andrew Lang
... much praying; don't seem to come handy to me; but I can watch like a redskin, only it's easier to mount guard over a lurking grizzly than my own cursed temper. It's that I'm afraid of, if I settle down. I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully, and I can't take it out in ...
— Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott
... Now very hard it is to make A Brownie his bad ways forsake, For it's a fact he takes the cake, If he can't find the candy! And if you clap your hands and shoo, He'll only make a face at you; There's only one thing you can do— Just keep the pepper handy! For, as a Brownie hates to sneeze, Or blow his nose if it should tease, Or any wholesome acts like these, He can't abide ...
— Christmas Entertainments • Alice Maude Kellogg


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