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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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... curling hill, and over and down past a fair steading into a friendly valley, where the cattle stood drowsy under the shelter of giant chestnut trees, and luxuriant hawthorns in full blossom filled all the neighbouring air with timely sweetness. At the bidding of an aged finger-post Jonah turned to the left, and a moment later the car was scudding up a leafy lane, high-banked, narrow, and soon so screened and arched with foliage that in a little we were being swept through a veritable tunnel, seemingly ...

— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates

... Ruperta. "Then go about your business directly, and don't never come here again! Scolding me! How dare you?—oh! oh! oh!" and the little lady went off slowly, with her finger in her eye; and Master Compton looked rather rueful, as we all do when this charming sex has recourse to what may be called "liquid reasoning." I have known the most solid reasons unable ...

— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade

... players starved for weeks on end. The boss conducted in mittens. The men wore mittens, too, but they had holes in them, so they could finger the strings and ...

— The World's Great Men of Music - Story-Lives of Master Musicians • Harriette Brower

... something that has lived and moved for hundreds of years in the heart of the race; something which has been one of the great formative influences of his own life, and which has done as much to create those very figures in the street as qualities in the circulation of the blood may do to form a finger or other limb. He comes into touch with a very real Presence or Power—one of those organic centers of growth in the life of humanity—and feels this larger life within himself, subjective, if you ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... things animate and inanimate around her seemed to thicken, until she unconsciously halted before a dim and pillared wood, and a vast and heathless opening on whose mute brown lips Nature seemed to have laid the finger of silence. She forgot the party she had left, she forgot the luncheon she was going to; more important still she forgot that she had already left the traveled track far behind her, and, tremulous with anticipation, rode timidly into that ...

— A First Family of Tasajara • Bret Harte

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