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A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals; a clavier, or set of keys. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

entilla palustris) having purple flowers, and found growing in marshy places; marsh five- finger. -- Marsh elder. (Bot.) (a) The guelder-rose or cranberry tree (Viburnum Opulus). (b) In the United States, a composite shrub growing in salt marshes (Iva frutescens). -- Marsh five-finger. (Bot.) See Marsh cinquefoil (ab…

The third or middle finger; the third digit, or that which corresponds to it.

Occupying a middle position; middle; as, the mid finger; the mid hour of night.

The little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes.

A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers.

it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger. Chaucer.

Having but one finger or claw.

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

Having many fingers, or fingerlike processes.

the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes. His nayles like a briddes claws were. Chaucer.

A little towel, or small cloth, esp. one for wiping the fingers and mouth at table.

A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form.

ow, at this very instant; precisely now. [Obs.] "Why, even now now, at holding up of this finger, and before the turning down of this." J. Webster (1607). -- Now . . . now, alternately; at one time . . . at another time. "Now high, now low, now master up, now miss." Pope.

ute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold. "A stony image, cold and numb." Shak.

the odylic force. [Archaic] That od force of German Reichenbach Which still, from female finger tips, burnt blue. Mrs. Browning.

An affection of a finger or toe, attended with ulceration at the base of the nail, and terminating in the destruction of the nail.

Not closed or stopped with the finger; -- said of the string of an instrument, as of a violin, when it is allowed to vibrate throughout its whole length.

Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger.

To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes. [Obs.] Shak.