Word Meanings - HANDYFIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fight with the hands; boxing. "Pollux loves handyfights." B. Jonson.

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• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• BOX KITE
  A kite, invented by Lawrence Hargrave, of Sydney, Australia, which consist of two light rectangular boxes, or cells open on two sides, and fastened together horizontally. Called also Hargrave, or cellular, kite.
• FIGHTINGLY
  Pugnaciously.
• FIGHT
  fechten, Sw. fäkta, Dan. fegte, and perh. to E. fist; cf. L. pugnare 1. To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in
• BOXING DAY
  The first week day after Christmas, a legal holiday on which Christmas boxes are given to postmen, errand boys, employees, etc. The night of this day is boxing night.
• HANDSOMENESS
  The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.
• FIGHTWITE
  A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.
• HANDSPIKE
  A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
• BOXTHORN
  A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum.
• BOX TAIL
  In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite.
• BOXBERRY
  The wintergreern. .
• 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.
• BOXHAUL
  To put on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox . Totten.
• FIGHTING
  1. Qualified for war; fit for battle. An host of fighting men. 2 Chron. xxvi. 11. 2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field. Pope. A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. -- Fighting crab ,
• BOXKEEPER
  An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.
• BOXER
  One who packs boxes.
• BOXWOOD
  The wood of the box .
• POLLUX
  A fixed star of the second magnitude, in the constellation Gemini. Cf. 3d Castor.
• POORBOX
  A receptacle in which money given for the poor is placed.
• BANDBOX
  A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs , collars, caps, bonnets, etc.
• AXLE BOX
  1. A bushing in the hub of a wheel, through which the axle passes. 2. The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle. Note: In railway construction, the axle guard, or pedestal, with the superincumbent weight, rests on the top of
• FOOTFIGHT
  A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.
• VANITY BOX
  A small box, usually jeweled or of precious metal and worn on a chain, containing a mirror, powder puff, and other small toilet articles for a woman.
• DRAWGLOVES
  An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.
• POUNCET BOX
  A box with a perforated lid, for sprinkling pounce, or for holding perfumes. Shak.
• SPITBOX
  A vessel to receive spittle.
• CARBOXIDE
  A compound of carbon and oxygen, as carbonyl, with some element or radical; as, potassium carboxide. Potassium carboxide, a grayish explosive crystalline compound, C6O6K, obtained by passing carbon monoxide over heated potassium.
• ABOX
  Braced aback.
• CAMPFIGHT
  A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.
• BUSHFIGHTING
  Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.
• BUSHFIGHTER
  One accustomed to bushfighting. Parkman.
• 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