Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing something valuable, especially a gift; provided with whatever is needed: the opposite of
empty-handed .
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Examples
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Liam made his favorite penne in vodka sauce, and Daniel Dressler came full-handed with tiramisu that his mother made for the occasion.
The Love Goddess’ Cooking School Melissa Senate 2010
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Liam made his favorite penne in vodka sauce, and Daniel Dressler came full-handed with tiramisu that his mother made for the occasion.
The Love Goddess’ Cooking School Melissa Senate 2010
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Liam made his favorite penne in vodka sauce, and Daniel Dressler came full-handed with tiramisu that his mother made for the occasion.
The Love Goddess’ Cooking School Melissa Senate 2010
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Brahms's Cello Sonata No. 2 was the best fit for Bailey's edgy, sometimes overly percussive sound and for Weiss's ability to create a meaty, full-handed texture at the keyboard.
Music review: Zuill Bailey and Orion Weiss at the Kennedy Center 2010
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She will be the same to me whether she comes full-handed or empty.
Lady Anna 2004
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Art deals with what we see, it must first contribute full-handed that ingredient; it plucks its material, otherwise expressed, in the garden of life — which material elsewhere grown is stale and uneatable.
The Ambassadors 2003
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By every vessel he wrote; he wrote as he gave and as he loved, in full-handed, full-hearted plenitude.
Villette 2003
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That full-handed pinch had hurt like the very devil!
Anything You Can Do ... Randall Garrett 1957
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In them days three was a full-handed crew for a fore-an'-after, and that's all we had, -- captain, mate, and cook, and a dog and cat.
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"You can't go to him if you don't go full-handed," said one to another; and he that heard it, and he that said it, laughed as though it were a good joke.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various
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