Definition of finger

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Finger (n.) The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard..

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Tridactyle :: Tridactyle (a.) Having three fingers or toes, or composed of three movable parts attached to a common base..
Extensor :: Extensor (n.) A muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; -- opposed to flexor..
Siss :: Siss (v. i.) To make a hissing sound; as, a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger..
Stick :: Stick (v. i.) To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall..
Finger :: Finger (v. t.) To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with.
Felon :: Felon (a.) A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint..
Virginal :: Virginal (v. i.) To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat..
Hermodactyl :: Hermodactyl (n.) A heart-shaped bulbous root, about the size of a finger, brought from Turkey, formerly used as a cathartic..
Drawgloves :: Drawgloves (n. pl.) An old game, played by holding up the fingers..
Interdigitate :: Interdigitate (v. i.) To interlock, as the fingers of two hands that are joined; to be interwoven; to commingle..
Digitorium :: Digitorium (n.) A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.
Starch :: Starch (n.) A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc..
Press :: Press (v.) To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd..
Aurora :: Aurora (n.) The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew..
Dactylitis :: Dactylitis (n.) An inflammatory affection of the fingers.
Potto :: Potto (n.) A nocturnal mammal (Perodictius potto) of the Lemur family, found in West Africa. It has rudimentary forefingers. Called also aposoro, and bush dog..
Dactyliomancy :: Dactyliomancy (n.) Divination by means of finger rings.
Knuckle :: Knuckle (n.) The joint of a finger, particularly when made prominent by the closing of the fingers..
Patagium :: Patagium (n.) In bats, an expansion of the integument uniting the fore limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form the wing; in birds, the similar fold of integument uniting the fore limb with the body..
Fingering :: Fingering (n.) The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers.
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