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/rˈənɪŋ hænd/ Listen

Running hand

noun

Rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper. Synonyms: cursive, cursive script, longhand.

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"Running hand" Quotes from Famous Books

... me in manuscript." Lamb wrote much, including many letters; but his hands were wanting in pliancy ("inveterate clumsiness" are his words), and his handwriting was therefore never good. It was neither text nor running hand, and the letters did not indicate any fluency; it was not the handwriting of an old man nor of a young man; yet it had a very peculiar character—stiff, resolute, distinct; quite unlike all others that I have seen, and easily ...

— Charles Lamb • Barry Cornwall

... spare bed-rooms," wrote the young lady, in an indignant running hand, "but for all that, my dear Robert, you can't come; for my lady has taken it into her silly head that she is too ill to entertain visitors (there is no more the matter with her than there is with me), and she cannot have ...

— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Words linked to "Running hand" : script, hand, copperplate, round hand, minuscule, italic, handwriting