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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dexterous \Dex"ter*ous\, a. [L. dexter. See {Dexter}.] [Written
also {dextrous}.]
1. Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs;
skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as a
dexterous hand; a dexterous workman.
2. Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients;
expert; as a dexterous manager.
Dexterous the craving, fawning crowd to quit
--Pope.
3. Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as dexterous
management. ``Dexterous sleights of hand.'' --Trench.
Syn: Adroit; active; expert; skillful; clever; able; ready;
apt; handy; versed.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
dexterous
adj : skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a
deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face";
"dexterous of hand and inventive of mind" [syn: {deft},
{dextrous}]
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