Backhand: Definition and part of speech

Backhand

  1. a. Backhanded; indirect; oblique.
  2. n. A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.
  3. a. Sloping from left to right; — said of handwriting.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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