subs. (old colloquial).—1.  Generic for weakness. PALSY IN THE HAND (old) = the habit of dicing.

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  1608.  A Yorkshire Tragedy, i. 4. What is there … to make a man … with the gentleman’s PALSY in the hand shake out his posterity, thieves or beggars?

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  1623.  MASSINGER, The Duke of Milan, iv. 3.

        Lock up thine own wife, fool, that must take physic
From her young doctor, physic upon her back,
Because thou hast the PALSY in that part
That makes her active.

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