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Light-fingered :: Light-fingered (a.) Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts.

Fingered :: Fingered (imp. & p. p.) of Finge.

Trigger :: Trigger (n.) A piece, as a lever, which is connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it; especially (Firearms), the part of a lock which is moved by the finger to release the cock and discharge the piece..

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..

Introduce :: Introduce (v. t.) To put (something into a place); to insert; as, to introduce the finger, or a probe..

Mora :: Mora (n.) A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes..

Monodactylous :: Monodactylous (a.) Having but one finger or claw.

Dactyliomancy :: Dactyliomancy (n.) Divination by means of finger rings.

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

Dactylonomy :: Dactylonomy (n.) The art of numbering or counting by the fingers.

Fillip :: Fillip (v. t.) To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger..

Fingered :: Fingered (a.) Having leaflets like fingers; digitate.

Thumb :: Thumb (n.) The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex..

Forceps :: Forceps (n.) A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc..

Chirologist :: Chirologist (n.) One who communicates thoughts by signs made with the hands and fingers.

Athetosis :: Athetosis (n.) A variety of chorea, marked by peculiar tremors of the fingers and toes..

Dactyl :: Dactyl (n.) A finger or toe; a digit.

Epiperipheral :: Epiperipheral (a.) Connected with, or having its origin upon, the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to the feelings which originate at the extremities of nerves distributed on the outer surface, as the sensation produced by touching an object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral..

Accretion :: Accretion (n.) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes..

Hexadactylous :: Hexadactylous (a.) Having six fingers or toes.

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