Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HAND, v.t.

1. To give or transmit with the hand. Hand me a book.
2. To lead, guide and lift with the hand; to conduct. Locke.
3. To manage; as, I hand my oar. Prior.
4. To seize; to lay hands on. [Not used.] Shak.
5. In seamanship, to furl; to wrap or roll a sail close to the yard, stay or mast, and fasten it with gaskets. Mar. Dict. To hand down, to transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor. Fables are handed down from age to age.