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What does dry-handed mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word dry-handed? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having hands that are dry.
  2. (archaic) Empty-handed.
  3. (obsolete) Unarmed; lacking special equipment for fighting.
  4. (obsolete) Snobbish; concerned more with social standing than actual worth.
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She went from the arms of the football captain to the dry-handed grasp of Mr. Depopolus, who'd retired from the faculty when she was twelve years old.
How long will ye whet spears with eloquence, Fight, and kill beasts dry-handed with sweet words? Cease, or talk still and slay thy boars at home.
Just after noon, a northerly wind suddenly sprant up. De Villaine and his crew were left to finish their harvest dry-headed and dry-handed.
In the experiment the dry-handed milkers washed their hands thoroughly in soap and water and dried them on a clean towel before starting.
Dry-handed big-eyed cryptographer Joria Trin Han, approaching intimacy as if it were a secret code to be cracked.
He went away on Wednesday last, and left this enclosed, which, I think, gives notice that the dry-handed Indians will remember themselves and you better than they have done.

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