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English Dictionary: left-handed	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for left-handed
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
left-handed adj using or intended for the left hand; "left-handed golfers need left-handed clubs"; "left-handed scissors" Antonym(s): ambidextrous, right-handed, two-handed (of marriages) illicit or informal; "in Colonial America left-handed marriages between Frenchmen and Indians were frequent" (of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior Synonym(s): morganatic, left-handed rotating to the left Synonym(s): levorotary, levorotatory, left-handed ironically ambiguous; "a left-handed compliment" lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse Synonym(s): bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Left-handed \Left"-hand`ed\, a. 1. Having the left hand or arm stronger and more dexterous than the right; using the left hand and arm with more dexterity than the right. 2. Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment. The commendations of this people are not always left-handed and detractive. --Landor. 3. Having a direction contrary to that of the hands of a watch when seen in front; -- said of a twist, a rotary motion, etc., looked at from a given direction. {Left-handed marriage}, a morganatic marriage. See {Morganatic}. {Left-handed screw}, a screw constructed to advance away from the observer, when turned, as in a nut, with a left-handed rotation. An ordinary wood screw is right-handed.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Left-handed (Judg. 3:15; 20:16), one unable to use the right hand skilfully, and who therefore uses the left; and also one who uses the left as well as the right, ambidexter. Such a condition of the hands is due to physical causes. This quality was common apparently in the tribe of Benjamin.