both handedness (bothhan dednes)

The power of using either hand with equal ease; ambidexterity. The tendency toward what might be called both - handed ne in the use of the brush. The Student , III. 284. both-handst (bōth'handz), n. A person indispensable to another; a factotum. He is his master's both - hands, I a ure you. βόθρος , a pit, + δένδρον , a tree.] In bot ., an extinct genus of plants of the coal era, related to Lep i do dendron . Bothrophera (both-rof'e-rä), n . pl . [NL., prop. Bothrophora, bear1 .] The sole no glyph venomous serpents of the new world, so called from having a pit between the eyes and nose: corresponding to the family Crotalidæ , and contrasting with the Abothrophera . both-sided (both'si ded), a. Complete; comprehensive; not limited or partial. There is forced on us the truth that a scientific morality arises only as fast as the one-sided conceptions adapted to transitory conditions are developed into both - sided conceptions. H. Spencer , Data of Ethics, p. 98. both-sidedne (both'sī"ded-nes), n. Impartiality; completene or comprehensivene of view or thought. Even in our country and age there are dangers from the want of a due both - sidedne . H. Spencer, Sociol., p. 397. both-sidest (bōth'sīdz), a. Being or speaking on both sides; double-tongued; deceitful. [Rare.] Damnable both - sides rogue! Shak., All's Well, iv. 3.