Emily Dickinson Lexicon

hand (-s), n. [OE < Germanic.] (webplay: arm, at, beauty, between, by, care, carry, changed, Christ, clap, courteous, day, distant, divine, employed, eternal, external, familiar, far, fine, fingers, fitness, follow, feet, foot, friend, God, heart, heavy, hold, holy, idle, innocent, joy, left, lift, light, making, measure, mercies, mind, ministry, mouth, near, off, on, owner, palm, pay, perfection, pointing, power, reach, right, saw, service, shift, side, skill, spirit, strength, take, time, use, violin, within).

1. Palm and fingers; appendage used to carry an object; end of arm beginning at the wrist including palm and fingers.
2. Protuberance that extends outward from the body in the likeness of the appendage.
3. [Fig.] indicators of time on a clock.
4. [Fig.] person employed to work.
5. Phrase. "Hand full": amount that can be held in the palm and fingers.
6. Phrase. "Right hand": [fig.] representative of the partiality of a divine authority; emblematic of the favor of someone in authority.
7. Phrase. "at hand": near by; close by; not far away.