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Index :: Index (n.) The second digit, that next pollex, in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger..

Fingering :: Fingering (n.) The marking of the notes of a piece of music to guide or regulate the action or use of the fingers.

Jam :: "Jam (v. t.) To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door..

Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

Finger :: Finger (v. t.) To touch lightly; to toy with.

Stump :: Stump (n.) The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom..

Pick :: Pick (v.) To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket..

Percussion :: Percussion (n.) The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called mediate..

Wharfinger :: Wharfinger (n.) A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf..

Undulation :: Undulation (n.) The tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string, as of a violin..

Stop :: Stop (n.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated..

Repercussion :: Repercussion (n.) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger..

Bidigitate :: Bidigitate (a.) Having two fingers or fingerlike projections.

Thumbscrew :: Thumbscrew (n.) A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger..

Pat :: Pat (v. t.) To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog..

Taper :: Taper (a.) Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers..

Digit :: Digit (v. t.) To point at or out with the finger.

Digitipartite :: Digitipartite (a.) Parted like the fingers.

Chiroplast :: Chiroplast (n.) An instrument to guid the hands and fingers of pupils in playing on the piano, etc..

Point :: Point (v. i.) To direct the point of something, as of a finger, for the purpose of designating an object, and attracting attention to it; -- with at..

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