A large hand in writing, so called because it was the practice to write the text of a book (the text-copy) in a large hand, and the notes in a smaller hand. Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
A large hand in writing, so called because it was the practice to write the text of a book (the text-copy) in a large hand, and the notes in a smaller hand. Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.