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FOREFINGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The finger next to the thumb
Synonyms:
forefinger; index; index finger
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("forefinger" is a kind of...):
finger (any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb))
Context examples:
She inquired how long they had been dead: then how old I was, what was my name, whether I could read, write, and sew a little: then she touched my cheek gently with her forefinger, and saying, She hoped I should be a good child, dismissed me along with Miss Miller.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“Now, mind!” she exclaimed, turning back on her way to the door, and looking shrewdly at me, with her forefinger up again.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Her gloves were greyish and were worn through at the right forefinger.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Ha, ha!” cried the pardoner, shaking a jewelled forefinger.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You must learn to open a door, to enter a room, to present a snuff-box, raising the lid with the forefinger of the hand in which you hold it.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With thumb and forefinger she swept the dripping suds first from one arm and then from the other.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
They are very pretty, but I think you're rather too young for such ornaments, Amy, said Mrs. March, looking at the plump little hand, with the band of sky-blue stones on the forefinger, and the quaint guard formed of two tiny golden hands clasped together.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
As a preliminary to another journey to his bunk, he hooked Wolf Larsen’s buttonhole with a greasy forefinger and vacuously proclaimed and reiterated, I got money, I got money, I tell yer, an’ I’m a gentleman’s son.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
To—be—sure, said Mr. Omer, touching my waistcoat with his forefinger, and there was a little child too!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
