Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Handed

Handed , adjective

1.
With hands joined; hand in hand.
Into their inmost bower, Handed they went. — Milton
2.
Having a peculiar or characteristic hand.
As poisonous tongued as handed. — Shakespeare

Handed is used in composition in the sense of having (such or so many) hands; as, bloody-handed; free-handed; heavy-handed; left-handed; single-handed.