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.
• HANDSPIKE
  A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
• FACTOTUM
  A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. B. Jonson.
• 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