Word Meanings - BOTH-HANDS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A factotum. He is his master's both-hands, I assure you. B. Jonson.
Related words: (words related to BOTH-HANDS)
- ASSURER
1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy. - HANDSPRING
A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground. - MASTERSHIP
1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what - MASTEROUS
Masterly. Milton. - HANDSOMELY
Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner. - HANDSOMENESS
The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare. - MASTERFULLY
In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay. - MASTERSINGER
One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm. - FACTOTUM
A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. B. Jonson. - HANDSPIKE
A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes. - ASSUREDLY
Certainly; indubitably. "The siege assuredly I'll raise." Shak. - ASSURED
Made sure; safe; insured; certain; indubitable; not doubting; bold to excess. - MASTER
A vessel having masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master. - HANDSOME
-some. It at first meant, dexterous; cf. D. handzaam dexterous, 1. Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons. That they be both easy to be carried and handsome to be moved and turned about. Robynson . For - HANDSAW
A saw used with one hand. - MASTERLINESS
The quality or state of being masterly; ability to control wisely or skillfully. - ASSUREDNESS
The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence. - MASTERLY
1. Suitable to, or characteristic of, a master; indicating thorough knowledge or superior skill and power; showing a master's hand; as, a masterly design; a masterly performance; a masterly policy. "A wise and masterly inactivity." Sir - MASTERLESS
Destitute of a master or owner; ungoverned or ungovernable. -- Mas"ter*less*ness, n. - MASTERHOOD
The state of being a master; hence, disposition to command or hector. C. Bronté. - CREMASTERIC
Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery. - BAGGAGE MASTER
One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. - UNASSURED
1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods. - TOASTMASTER
A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts. - TASKMASTER
One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton. - BANDMASTER
The conductor of a musical band. - HARBOR MASTER
An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor. - WEIGHMASTER
One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher. - BEEMASTER
One who keeps bees. - POSTMASTERSHIP
The office of postmaster. - BARMASTER
Formerly, a local judge among miners; now, an officer of the barmote. - POSTMASTER-GENERAL
The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet. - POSTMASTER
1. One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses. 2. One who has charge of a post office, and the distribution and forwarding of mails. - UNHANDSOME
1. Not handsome; not beautiful; ungraceful; not comely or pleasing; plain; homely. Were she other than she is, she were unhandsome. Shak. I can not admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular . . . in the globe. Woodward. 2. Wanting noble