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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Daedalian, accessible, adaptable, adept, adjacent, adroit, agential, agentival, agentive, all-around, apt, artistic, assisting, at hand, authoritative, available, baby, baby-sized, bantam, banty, bravura, brilliant, clean, clever, close by, close-by, compact, conducive, convenient, convenient to, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diminutive, diplomatic, ductile, duodecimo, easily reached, employable, excellent, expert, facilitating, fancy, favoring, feasible, flexible, foolproof, forwarding, good, goodish, graceful, helpful, ingenious, instrumental, intermediary, magisterial, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, masterful, masterly, mediating, mediatorial, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, ministerial, ministering, minuscule, nearby, neat, nimble, no mean, of all work, on call, on deck, on hand, on tap, pliable, pliant, pocket, pocket-sized, politic, pony, practical, professional, proficient, promoting, propinquant, propinquous, quick, quite some, ready, ready at hand, resourceful, serviceable, skilled, skillful, slick, small-scale, some, statesmanlike, stylish, subminiature, subservient, tactful, the compleat, the complete, to hand, toy, tractable, twelvemo, untroublesome, usable, useful, versatile, vest-pocket, virtuoso, well-done, wieldable, wieldy, workmanlike, yielding
Dictionary Results for handy:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
handy
    adj 1: easy to reach; "found a handy spot for the can opener"
           [syn: handy, ready to hand(p)]
    2: easy to use; "a handy gadget"
    3: skillful with the hands; "handy with an axe"
    n 1: United States blues musician who transcribed and published
         traditional blues music (1873-1958) [syn: Handy, W. C.
         Handy, William Christopher Handy]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Handy \Hand"y\ (h[a^]nd"[y^]), a. [Compar. Handier
   (-[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Handiest.] [OE. hendi, AS. hendig
   (in comp.), fr. hand hand; akin to D. handig, Goth. handugs
   clever, wise.]
   1. Performed by the hand. [Obs.]
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            To draw up and come to handy strokes. --Milton.
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   2. Skillful in using the hand; dexterous; ready; adroit.
      "Each is handy in his way." --Dryden.
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   3. Ready to the hand; near; also, suited to the use of the
      hand; convenient; valuable for reference or use; as, my
      tools are handy; a handy volume.
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   4. (Naut.) Easily managed; obedient to the helm; -- said of a
      vessel.
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