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1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Manoalmente, manually, handily.

1659 J. Rogers Διαπολιτεία 36 All these good women..he sends for to his Labour, to help him with such means and active counsel as may most handily obstetricate and ease him of his burthen.

1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. xiii. 137 I went through my business pretty handily, giving a general satisfaction.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 65 Not being able to guide it so handily.

1758 C. Lennox Henrietta II. iii. v. 39 Henrietta was acquitting herself handily enough of this task.

1832 H. Martineau Life in Wilds vi. 78 She used..the threads of flax more handily than they.

1899 C. J. C. Hyne Further Adventures Capt. Kettle vi. 137 If the bar had shifted, he himself could have put this steamer on the ground as handily as the other man had piled up the branch boat.

1920 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 515/2 This young woman..played the piano remarkably handily.

2003 A. Bromfield tr. B. Akunin Winter Queen (2004) viii. 97 ‘Well done, the novice,’ someone said with a whistle. ‘He set up that queen very handily.’

1793 C. Macklin Man of World 30 Seeing a smark oaken cudgel that stood very handily in a corner of my dressing-room, I ordered two of my fellows to hold the rascal, and another to take the cudgel.

1839 C. J. Boyle Love's Exchange I. i. 24 A leathern pouch and flask, slung round his neck, and hanging down handily in front.

1882 Publishers' Weekly 2 Sept. 253/2 There is no reason why books should not be sold as handily as other merchandise.

1905 W. C. Hazlitt Brand's Pop. Antiq. Great Brit.: Faiths & Folklore (rev. ed.) I. Pref. p. vii The new plan..will have..the effect of bringing more promptly and handily within reach the details connected with the enormous number of subjects, with which the Dictionary deals.

1956 J. Barth Floating Opera i. 2 And although my principles might change now and then..nevertheless I always have them a-plenty, more than I can handily use, and they usually hang all in a piece, so that my life is never less logical simply for its being unorthodox.

2005 Independent 15 Oct. (Suppl.) p.x The academy is now housed in the Modenatie, handily placed for the shops at Nationalestraat 28, and also home to MoMu, the city's fashion museum.

1834 Amer. Turf Registry & Sporting Mag. Dec. 201 A scrub sweepstake..was run between Mr. Jones' filly, and Mr. Nichols' and Gen. Bedell's colts. Won handily by Mr. Jones' filly.

1897 Turf, Field & Farm 27 Aug. 270/1 The great colt Ornament..then moved up and won handily by two lengths.

1915 C. Mathewson Catcher Craig xiii. 171 A minute later he was sent to second and stole handily, Hanford being unwilling to risk a throw-down for fear that Sam would score.

1951 I. Asimov Foundation Trilogy—Foundation iii. ii. 93 You and I both know that the armament he now has could defeat Terminus handily, long before we could repair the cruiser for our own use.

2011 Wall St. Jrnl. 6 June r6/1 Everyone knows about the Windows vs. Apple platform war, which Microsoft won handily in the PC era.