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. Side; one half of a bisected area.
2. Worker; [metonymy] person employed to work.
3. Claw; bird foot.
4. Clasp; graspable portion; [fig.] cover; binding of a book.
5. Protuberance; appendage; [fig.] branch; bramble; shoot; tendril.
6. Palm with thumb and fingers; appendage used to carry an object; end of arm beginning at the wrist.
7. Marker; pointer; indicator of time on a clock.
8. Phrase. “by the hand”: carefully; personally; with direct guidance.
9. Phrase. “Right hand”: [fig.] divine authority; presence of Deity; favor of God the Father (see Exodus 15:6; Matthew 25:32-33).
10. Phrase. “Hand full”: handful; amount that can be held in the cupped palm and fingers.
11. Phrase. “at hand”: near by; close by; not far away.