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Definition of Free hand
1. Noun. Freedom to do as you see fit. "Many have doubts about giving him a free hand to attack"
Definition of Free hand
1. Noun. (idiomatic) free rein ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Free Hand
Literary usage of Free hand
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... as they readily will in a free-hand diagram, that E is between A and C, and
F between В and C; then from the equal right triangles AED = BFD, DEC = DFC, ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"And that the same writer went on to write I Timothy with a free hand? It can not
be said that all the problems connected with the Pastorals have been ..."
3. Proceedings by American Society for Engineering Education (1894)
"That it is a serious one, those who have charge of this work realize when it is
stated that to-day the free-hand drawing taught to mechanical students is ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1878)
"For Grammar and High Schools: —Teacher's Manual for Free-hand Dr. and Design, $2.50.
... Free-hand Dr. Book, Nos. 1-6.—Geometrical Dr. Book, Nos. 1-4. ..."
5. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1903)
"But a unique crisis had arrived in England by the accession of James II, which
gave Louis a free hand against his Protestant subjects. ..."
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