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Webster 1913 Edition
Unhand
Un-hand′
,Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+ hand
.] To loose from the hand; to let go.
Hold off!
Eftsoons his hand dropped he.
unhand
me, gray beard loon!Eftsoons his hand dropped he.
Coleridge.
Webster 1828 Edition
Unhand
UNHAND'
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
unhand
unhand
English
Verb
unhand (third-person singular simple present unhands, present participle unhanding, simple past and past participle unhanded)
- To release from the hand; to let go.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 1, lines 9-12,
- He holds him with his skinny hand,
- "There was a ship," quoth he.
- "Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!"
- Eftsoons his hand dropt he.
- 1853, Oliver Optic, Hatchie, The Guardian Slave or The Heiress of Bellevue. A Tale of the Mississippi and the South-west, B. B. Mussey and Company, and R. B. Fitts and Company, Chapter XXX, page 305:
- “Unhand' the lady!” said Vernon, in a severe tone, as, at the same time, he draw from his pocket a pistol. “Unhand her!” and he approached the lawyer
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 1, lines 9-12,