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manual dexterity

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n.1.Adroitness in using the hands.
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Noun1.manual dexteritymanual dexterity - adroitness in using the hands        
adeptness, adroitness, deftness, quickness, facility - skillful performance or ability without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"; "he was famous for his facility as an archer"


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The main dependence was on bodily strength and manual dexterity.
His custom rapidly diminished--a misfortune, however, that was probably reckoned among his better accidents by Owen Warland, who was becoming more and more absorbed in a secret occupation which drew all his science and manual dexterity into itself, and likewise gave full employment to the characteristic tendencies of his genius.
 
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