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Hand-fasting

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Fast handed

Close handed close fisted covetous avaricious

Scythe

An instrument for mowing grass grain or the like by hand composed of a long curving blade with a sharp edge made fast to a long handle called a … grass grain or the like by hand composed of a long curving blade with a sharp edge made fast to a long handle called a snath which is bent into a form convenient for use

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Means and includes

those things which the clause declares that they shall include. The words 'means and includes', on the other hand, indicate 'an exhaustive explanation of the meaning which, for the purposes of the Act, must invariably be attached … and includes' are used. The use of the word 'means' indicates that the definition is a 'hard and fast' definition and no other meaning can be assigned to the expression than is put down in definition, ICICI

Distress

Fr.], a taking, without legal process, of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the hands of a party grieved, as a pledge for the redressing an injury, the performance of a duty, or … Distress [fr. distringo, Lat., to bind fast; districtio, Med. Lat., whence distraindre, Fr.], a taking, without legal process, of a personal chattel from the possession

Obscene

purely religious. What one has to see is that whether a class, not an isolated case, into whose hands the book, article or story falls suffer in their moral outlook or become depraved by reading it or … only for the adolescent and not for the adults. The standards of contemporary society in India are also fast changing. If a reference to sex by itself is considered obscene, no books can be sold except those

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