text hand

English

Noun

text hand (countable and uncountable, plural text hands)

1. (dated) A style of large handwriting, formerly used for the text of a book, contrasting with the smaller hand used for the notes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “text hand”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)