1. hand to hand , αὐτοσχεδίηι (i.e. μάχηι) in close fight, in the fray , (Iliad by Homer): αὐτοσχεδίην as adverb, = αὐτοσχεδόν, (Homer)

2. off-hand , of an improvisatore, (Homeric Hymns) (ML)