fullhanded

See also: full-handed

English

Adjective

fullhanded (comparative more fullhanded, superlative most fullhanded)

1. Alternative form of full-handed
   1. Carrying something.
      • 2009, Oriana Schwindt, The Better Angels:

        She was still there when he returned fullhanded.

   2. Wealthy.
      • 1887, Freemasons. New York (State) Royal Arch Masons. Grand Chapter, Proceedings, page 184:

        Objection is sometimes offered to this system upon the hypothesis that all but the rich or fullhanded, are excluded from our sanctuaries.

      • 1850, Blackwood's Magazine - Volume 67, page 389:

        Here is prosperity, Fat and fullhanded, arrived at our door: Crashes, disasters, and famine's severity, Never can harass or trouble us more.

   3. Enthusiastic.
      • 1971, Irwin Unger, Beyond liberalism: the new left views American history, page 109:

        France was already on the way out of Mexico when he intervened, and his fullhanded shove only accelerated the retreat.

   4. Using the palm of the hand.
      • 1982, Ronald E. Petit, Women and the career game: play to win!, →ISBN, page 123:

        A good handshake is a fullhanded, firm and brief grasp of the hand.

   5. Having people that fill all positions.
      • 1914, Vision: A Magazine for Youth - Volume 27, page 259:

        I went to the Hill Ranch and stayed a few days, but they being fullhanded, I went to the Half Circle F Ranch, and there found employment gathering horses from the foot hills.

   6. Complete.
      • 1981, United states code service, page 473:

        Commission's rule permitting joint hearing of pending applications, is certainly reasonable one, and when appellant, fullhanded with knowledge of situation, failed to request such joint hearing, he is in no position to demand, and court has no power to require, that Commission suspend its normal functions and reopen its proceedings so as to entitle him as "person aggrieved" to appeal...

Adverb

fullhanded (comparative more fullhanded, superlative most fullhanded)

1. Alternative form of full-handed
   • 1843, Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia:

     He failed to do so; permitted his vendee to remove from the country fullhanded, though his own embarrassments should have urged him to enforce his claim, if in truth it had not been adjusted

   • 1942, Frances Winwar, Oscar Wilde and the Yellow 'Nineties, page 83:

     With the optimism of his twenty-eight years— he had told the reporters he was twenty-six— he was throwing fullhanded his pearls of knowledge before men and women who would rather have seen him draw rabbits out of a hat.

   • 1914, Electrical Record and Buyer's Reference - Volume 14, page 41:

     In the woodshop I figured to find out just what it cost me to run fullhanded if I did not turn out a single piece of work.