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left-hand(dictionary)
left-hand drive(dictionary)
Hand for Hand - Poker(gambling)
left(encyclopedia)
left(medicine)
left(dictionary)
Democrats of the Left (DS)(encyclopedia)
Left Bank(dictionary)
left-sidedness(medicine)

left hand (iou)



left hand noun & adjective phr. As adjective also left-hand. ME.
[from LEFT adjective + HAND noun.]
A. noun phr.
The hand of the left side. ME.
marry with the left hand marry morganatically.
J. Steinbeck Kino carried a bundle in his left hand.
(The region or direction on) the left side of a person or thing. ME.
C. Jones Place of every Suit in your Hand the worst of it to the Left-hand.
b. adjective.
On or to the left side; done with the left hand. ME.
Fleming's left-hand rule: see FLEMING noun2. left-hand drive a motor-vehicle steering-system with the steering-wheel and other controls fitted on the left side; a vehicle with such steering. left-hand marriage a morganatic marriage. left-hand rope: laid up and twisted anticlockwise. left-hand rule Physics = Fleming's left-hand rule s.v. FLEMING noun2. left-hand screw a screw which rotates anticlockwise when inserted; any equivalent spiral.
M. Atwood He drove with..the left-hand window open.
Ambiguous, questionable; sinister. Now rare. L16.