Blood"y hand` ().

1.

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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2. Her.

A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom.

 

© Webster 1913.

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