HAND, Manus, is sometimes put for the extent of a thing: hoc mare magnum & spatiosum manibus, Psalm ciii. 26. and Isai. xxii. 18. Hebr. Terram spatiosam manibus; Genes. xxxiv. 11. and Neh. vii. 4.
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