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单词 by hand
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by hand
(a) by hand.
(i) With the hand or hands; by manual action or labour, as opposed to by machinery, or by natural processes; (also) personally, by one's own efforts. Formerly also †by hands (obsolete).
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handraulically1962
OE Christ & Satan 267 Ic [sc. the devil] be hondum mot hæþenre sceal [read sceale] gripan to grunde, godes andsacan.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. xiv. 8 The maumet..maad bi hondys is cursid.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 86 Blessid þe tre þat riȝtfulnes is don by; but þis þat is maad an idol bi hand is cursid, and he þat maad it.
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 2 Tim. ii. f. xxi The ghopell, whiche I delyuered vnto thee..delyuer likewise by handes vnto others.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler xi. 204 Many will fish for the Gudgion by hand . View more context for this quotation
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 163 A very great bank, so even, that it seems to have been done by hand.
1730 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 40 The Force, Twist, and touching Surfaces can never be alike and mensurable when joined by Hand.
1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 176 The crooks being cleared, by hand, in a somewhat immechanical manner.
1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 278 Implements employed in the preparation of flax by hand.
1881 Truth 19 May 686/2 Embroidery done by hand.
1920 Flight 12 48/1 An air-borne letter delivered by hand in Paris for 2s. 6d.
2003 National Geographic Dec. 9 (caption) Amid growing dominance of computers in the cockpit, the ‘Blues’ are still flown by hand.
(ii) With reference to the rearing of an animal: by a human being rather than the parents of the animal.
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1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 220 So quiet and so gentle, as if it had ben a house lambe brought vp by hand.
1592 T. Tymme Plaine Discouerie Ten Eng. Lepers G ij They bring up by hand crammed and franked foules and beastes.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Nestlings Canary-Birds, brought up by hand.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Pet A lamb taken into the house, and brought up by hand. A cade lamb.
1856 L. Bollman Ann. Rep. Indiana State Fair 1855 in 4th Ann. Rep. Indiana State Board Agric. 1854–5 454 I raised three pigs by hand this winter, and was astonished to find that when but a week old, each one drank a quart of milk in the twenty-four hours.
1907 West Indian Bull. 8 247 How to rear calves by hand economically is an experiment being tried by many.
2011 Wells Jrnl. (Nexis) 24 Nov. 44 Star, a tawny owl, who..had been reared by hand from a chick.
(iii) With reference to the rearing of a child: (fed) by the bottle as opposed to with breast milk. Now historical.
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1656 T. Fuller True Penitent 10 in Coll. Serm. Those Mothers, who want Milk, are not bound to suckle their own Children, but either to bring them up by hand, or to provide a Nurse for them.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 89. ⁋6 I was bred by Hand.
1784 M. Underwood (title) A treatise on the diseases of children, with directions for the management of infants from the birth; especially such as are brought up by hand.
1826 Lancet 20 May 228/1 Children that are brought up ‘by hand’, as the expression is, that is, upon vegetable food, instead of the mother's milk.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations I. ii. 12 She had brought me up ‘by hand’.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Touch & Go ii. 56 You only know the feeding-bottle. It's what you want, all of you—to be brought up by hand.
2010 D. Selwyn Jane Austen & Children iii. 32 They had to make use of a wet-nurse or bring the baby up by hand, or ‘by the spoon’.
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