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"my fate is in your hands" "too much power in the president's hands"noun(with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child
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- ironwood handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties
- zebrawood handsomely striped or mottled wood of the zebrawood tree; used especially for cabinetwork
- crosscut saw handsaw that cuts at right angles to the grain (or major axis)
- quassia amara handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark
- scarlet bush handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil
- chinese scholartree handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having compound dark green leaves and profuse panicles of fragrant creamy-white flowers; China and Japan
- atriplex hymenelytra handsome low saltbush of arid southwestern United States and Mexico having blue-green prickly-edged leaves often used for Christmas decoration
- mesua ferrea handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties
- kentucky coffee tree handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute
- coloradillo handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil