first-hand (adj.)

also firsthand, "direct from the source or origin," 1690s, from the image of the "first hand" as the producer or maker of something.

also from 1690s

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multitudinous

First in Shakespeare or Dekker, depending on the dating of their publications, though it is certainly "Macbeth" that has...Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?...No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnardine, Making the green one, red....

manual

from Late Latin manuale "case or cover of a book, handbook," noun use of neuter of Latin manualis "of or belonging to the hand...; that can be thrown by hand," from manus "hand, strength, power over; armed force; handwriting," from PIE root *man- (2)..."hand."...The etymological sense is "small book such as may be carried in the hand or conveniently used by one hand."...

manuscript

"book, paper, or other document written by hand with ink, pencil, etc.," as distinguished from anything printed, especially...one written before the use of printing, c. 1600, earlier as an adjective, "written with the hand, handwritten, not printed..." (1590s ), from Medieval Latin manuscriptum "document written by hand," from Latin manu scriptus "written by hand," from...manu, ablative of manus "hand" (from PIE root *man- (2) "hand") + scriptus (neuter scriptum), past participle of scribere...

legerdemain

early 15c., "conjuring tricks, sleight of hand," from Old French léger de main "quick of hand," literally "light of hand....Main "hand" is from Latin manus (from PIE root *man- (2) "hand")....

palm

"flat of the hand, inner surface of the hand between the wrist and the fingers," c. 1300, paume, from Old French paume, palme...(Modern French paume), from Latin palma "palm of the hand," also "flat end of an oar; palm tree," from PIE root *pele- (...2) "flat; to spread" (source also of Greek palamē "open hand," Old Irish lam, Welsh llaw, Old English folm, Old High German...folma "hand," Sanskrit panih "hand, hoof")....

manufacture

1560s, "something made by hand," from French manufacture (16c.), from Medieval Latin *manufactura "a making by hand" (source...of Italian manifattura, Spanish manufactura), from Latin manu, ablative of manus "hand" (from PIE root *man- (2) "hand")...Sense of "process of making goods or wares of any kind, the production of articles of use from raw or prepared materials by hand-labor...

knuckle

1740, from knuckle (n.), originally in the game of marbles (putting a knuckle on the ground is the hand position preliminary...apply oneself earnestly" is 1864 in American English, an extended sense from marbles; to knuckle under "submit, give in" is first...

bow

[bend the body] Middle English bouen, from Old English bugan "to bend, become bent, have or assume a curved direction; to bow down, bend the body in condescension or reverence, to submit," also "to turn back" (class II strong verb; past tense beag, past participle bogen), from Pr

Florida

U.S. state, formerly a Spanish colony, probably from Spanish Pascua florida, literally "flowering Easter," a Spanish name for Palm Sunday, and so named because the peninsula was discovered on that day (March 20, 1513) by the expedition of Spanish explorer Ponce de León. From Lati

delta

c. 1200, name of the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet (equivalent to our D), which was shaped like a triangle. The name is from Phoenician daleth "tent door." Sense of "triangular island or alluvial tract between the diverging branches of the mouth of a great river" is because

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