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Webster 1913 Edition
Red-handed
{
Red′-handˊ
(r?d′h?ndˊ)
, Red′-handˊed
(-h?ndˊ?d)
, } Adj.
or adv.
Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands; – said of a person taken in the act of homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime;
as, he was taken
. red-hand
or red-handed