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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having a light, delicate touch.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having light hands; soft, delicate, or dexterous in touch or manipulation.
  • Having or bringing little in the hands: as, to come home light-handed.
  • Insufficiently supplied with hands or assistants, as a ship or a factory; short-handed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Naut.) Not having a full complement of men.
  • adjective having a metaphorically delicate touch.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective nautical Not having a full complement of workers.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a metaphorically delicate touch

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