Definition of longhand | Bee Dictionary of English

n rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper
s having words written out in full by hand
longhand writing

A newlywed at the age of 71, some 44 years after his first marriage was annulled, an admirer of high tech who nonetheless drafts speeches in longhand, a Republican who gets along .
At that time, I wrote my books and took my notes in longhand, believing I could not think well on a keyboard.
This is the room where he wrote, in longhand, most of the latest contribution to Clinton lore: his 957-page memoirs, titled simply My Life.

Need To Get Focused? First Go Analog
Have the feeling that you do your best thinking with a pen in your hand? There's a reason for that. And a way to get that feeling from a keyboard, too. If you take the Wall Street Journal 's word for it, handwriting trains your brain . How? Writer Patrick Rhone lists longhand's positives: "We learn more and retain more. Creative pathways are opened up as we engage more of our senses. Forming ...
June 17, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine
A handwritten Bible from an unlikely scribe
On Thursday’s edition of Interfaith Voices , I interviewed a delightful older gentleman who had just spent more than half a decade writing out the entire Bible (King James version) in longhand.
June 17, 2013 - National Catholic Reporter
Microsoft Antitrust Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Dead at 76
McGruber writes "The NY Times has the news that federal judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who ruled in 2000 that Microsoft was a predatory monopoly and must be split in half, has died. He was 76 years old. 'A technological novice who wrote his opinions in longhand and used his computer mainly to e-mail jokes, Judge Jackson refuted Microsoft's assertion that it was impossible to remove the company's ...
June 17, 2013 - Slashdot

Emma Thompson in Telegraph.co.uk
She told Parade magazine, "I'ma Luddite, and I write longhand with an old fountain pen".
Nick Clooney in Cincinnati.com
In a high-def world, I am analog guy. All the years I wrote for The Post, I wrote the first draft in longhand, typed the second draft and then I faxed it in,Clooney says.
Steve King in Radio Iowa
It's actually set up on parchment paper in Old-English longhand writing script,King says. "It actually looks like the Declaration (of Independence) and it says a lot of things like the Declaration."