Word Meanings - DACTYLIOMANCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Divination by means of finger rings.

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• FINGERED
  Having leaflets like fingers; digitate. (more info) 1. Having fingers.
• FINGERLING
  A young salmon. See Parr.
• RINGSTRAKED
  Ring-streaked. Cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. Gen. xxx. 39.
• FINGERING
  1. The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers. The mere sight and fingering of money. Grew. 2. The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in
• DIVINATION
  1. The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. There shall not be found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an
• FINGER
  G. finger, Icel. fingr, Sw. & Dan. finger, Goth. figgrs; of unknown 1. One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb. 2. Anything that does work of a finger; as, the
• RINGSAIL
  See RINGTAIL,2
• FINGERER
  One who fingers; a pilferer.
• EMBERINGS
  Ember days.
• HOPPERINGS
  Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.
• ROUGHSTRINGS
  Pieces of undressed timber put under the steps of a wooden stair for their support.
• KISSING STRINGS
  Cap or bonnet strings made long to tie under the chin. One of her ladyship's kissing strings, once pink and fluttering and now faded and soiled. Pall Mall Mag.
• WRINGSTAFF
  A strong piece of plank used in applying wringbolts.
• FIVE-FINGER
  See CINQUEFOIL
• BUTTER-FINGERED
  Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.
• AFTERINGS
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. Grose.
• FOREFINGER
  The finger next to the thumb; the index.
• LIGHT-FINGERED
  Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts. Fuller.
• WEB-FINGERED
  Having the fingers united by a web for a considerable part of their length.
• WHARFINGER
  A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf.
• LADY'S FINGER
  The kidney vetch. (more info) 1. pl.
• NOBILI'S RINGS
  Colored rings formed upon a metal plate by the electrolytic disposition of copper, lead peroxide, etc. They may be produced by touching with a pointed zinc rod a silver plate on which is a solution of copper sulphate.