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highest-ranking hands win. In low games, like razz, the lowest-ranking hands win. In high-low split games, both the highest-ranking and lowest-ranking hands win,...

one's hand (or to the board of community cards) after a betting round in which no player opened. One is thereby being given a chance to improve one's...

to lay hands upon one's sacrificial animal by applying one's full body weight on a Festival Day. In the New Testament the laying on of hands was associated...

applying massive amounts of force from one's arms to cause the device to split apart or loosen enough to squeeze one's hands through; however, this takes exceptional...

Most hands have blemishes such as scrapes, scars, spots, or discolorations which would stand out in a close up and detract from the product. Hand models...

a spiritual family since "one looked at the enlightened activities of one's lineal forebears in order to understand one's own identity." The practice...

Sages of Israel have exempted them from washing their hands prior to breaking bread. Rabbinic sources discuss a practice to wash hands after a meal, before...

position by balancing on the hands. In a basic handstand, the body is held straight with arms and legs fully extended, with hands spaced approximately a shoulder-width...

cold. Hands up is a gesture expressing military surrender by lifting both hands. This may have originated with the concept of exposing one's hands to show...

killing of one's own wife. It can refer to the act itself or the person who carries it out. It can also be used in the context of the killing of one's own girlfriend...

third best possible hands. The term applies mostly to community card poker games where the individual holding the strongest possible hand, with the given...

"hundred") and χείρ (cheir, "hand" or "arm"). Although the Theogony describes the three brothers as having one hundred hands (ἑκατὸν μὲν χεῖρες), the collective...

expressing one's vulnerability when one thinks they might have suffered too much to love again. For Rob Sheffield, the album is a song cycle about how one stops...

suggests an overly elegant "sweetness". To this day, a reference to someone as one's "Dulcinea" implies idealistic devotion and love for her. An unidentified...

activity that excludes penetration, and often includes rubbing one's genitals on one's sexual partner. This may include the partner's genitals or buttocks...

and having the dealer as North) to align with Western culture centering their compass on the North. Hands are optional and players may use all hands or...

a winner's hand can score, full limit hands score that maximum. Table rules dictate if these rare and special hands are allowed, which ones, and the limit...

century on. Waulking could be done with the hands and feet. In medieval Europe, it was done in water-powered fulling mills. After the Industrial Revolution...

Open-handed drumming is a method of playing a drum kit. The method involves not crossing the hands when playing the hi-hat (or ride-cymbal) and snare...

your hands up to the elbows, wipe your heads, and wash your feet up to the ankles. And if you are in a state of full impurity, then take a full bath....