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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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"Finger" Quotes from Famous Books

... additional evidence palpably false, with the result of discrediting the whole—and her friends adopted the same tactics. That both Mary and Murray knew that some plot existed, and that neither of them stirred a finger to frustrate it, is hardly ...

— England Under the Tudors • Arthur D. Innes

... get hence shortly we shall be fallen on. The reeve told me that he could gather five-score men of the worst sort in a day by the raising of his finger." ...

— A King's Comrade - A Story of Old Hereford • Charles Whistler

... for you but did not show the spring that holds the circuit breaker in contact with the spark point. That thin finger was part of it. A spring was wound spirally—not helically—around the projecting end of the breaker pivot and the end of the spring hookt over the thin ...

— The 1893 Duryea Automobile In the Museum of History and Technology • Don H. Berkebile

... far enough to reach the ears of those in the library, and bring the broncho boys to their feet. Across the white face of Lieutenant Barrows were the crimson finger marks left by ...

— Ted Strong in Montana - With Lariat and Spur • Edward C. Taylor

... Mr. Granahan. He's a canny good son and works hard, and is worth more than half-a-dozen men like Robbie John. They'll no put their finger in his eye. ...

— The Turn of the Road - A Play in Two Scenes and an Epilogue • Rutherford Mayne

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