(obsolete) Of people and things: dexterous; skillful.
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That they [engines of war] be both easy to be carried and handsome to be moved and turned about.
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1551, Thomas More, translated by Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC:
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Laſtly, for a theife it is ſo handſome, as it may ſeem it was firſt invented for him
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1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC: