BLOODY HAND
\blˈʌdi hˈand], \blˈʌdi hˈand], \b_l_ˈʌ_d_i h_ˈa_n_d]\
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A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison.
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A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom.
By Oddity Software
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A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison.
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A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom.
By Noah Webster.
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In forest law. The having the hands or other parts bloody, which, in a person caught trespassing in the forest against venison, was one of the four kinds of circumstantial evidence of his having killed deer, although he was not found in the act of chasing or hunting. Manwood.
By Henry Campbell Black
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