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Finger

noun

Any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb).

The length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure. Synonyms: digit, finger's breadth, fingerbreadth.

One of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb.

verb

(past & past part. fingered; pres. part. fingering)

Feel or handle with the fingers. Synonym: thumb.

Examine by touch. Synonym: feel. "The customer fingered the sweater"

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Indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments.

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... in an instant, and, with sinking heart, he realized that she had observed. There was a moment of indecision on the part of the fair one going out to sea, and then the little finger tips of both hands went to her lips and his kiss came back ...

— Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... absorbent cotton, sold in small packages at drug stores, is excellent for this purpose and should be kept in every home. A simple method of checking "nosebleed" is that of drawing air through the bleeding nostril, while the other nostril is compressed with the finger.(24) Another method is to "press with the finger (or insert a small roll of paper) under the lip against the base of the nose." (25) Where the bleeding is persistent, the nostril should be plugged with a small roll of ...

— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M.

... is extravagant exaggeration, in which the imagination is indulged beyond the sobriety of truth; as, "My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins."—2 Chron., x, 10. "When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil."—Job, ...

— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... loom for weaving palm-leaf and other cloth, of a push-finger, 41, substantially as and for ...

— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various

... boastful talk and much harmless gossip how the little Lady of Courtrai had used the wrong corner of the towel yesterday; how the fat Duchess of Enkhuysen had violated the laws of all etiquette by placing the wrong number of finger-bowls upon her table on St. Jacob's Day; and how the stout young Hubert of Malsen had scattered the rascal merchants of Dort ...

— Historic Girls • E. S. Brooks

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