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Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion.

Having fingers.

One who fingers; a pilferer.

The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers. The mere sight and fingering of money. Grew.

A young salmon. See Parr.

Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery; careless.

See Cinquefoil.

The finger next to the thumb; the index.

A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger.

Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts. Fuller.

Having the fingers united by a web for a considerable part of their length.

A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf.

A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.

tive; peremptory. [R.] The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed. Mrs. Browning.

A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes. Dana.

The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe. Grove. Chose in action. (Law) See Chose. -- Quantity of action (Physics), the product of the mass of a body by the space it runs through, and its velocity.…

Without fingers or without toes.

fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

A disease of the roots of turnips, etc.; -- called also fingers and toes.

Capable of being apposed, or applied one to another, as the thumb to the fingers of the hand.