Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	left_a	pass_v	right_a	5,170	5	6.7825	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40448	The art of distillation, or, A treatise of the choicest spagiricall preparations performed by way of distillation together with the description of the chiefest furnaces & vessels used by ancient and moderne chymists : also, A discourse of divers spagiricall experiments and curiosities, and the anatomy of gold and silver with the chiefest preparations and curiosities thereof, together with their vertues : all which are contained in VI bookes / composed by John French ...	French, John, 1616-1657.	1653 (1653)	Wing F2170; ESTC R5348	146,212	282

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