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Definition of Fingered

1. Adjective. Having or resembling a finger or fingers; often used in combination. "Three-fingered cartoon characters"

Definition of Fingered

1. a. Having fingers.

Definition of Fingered

1. Verb. (past of finger) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fingered

1. finger [v] - See also: finger

Medical Definition of Fingered

1. 1. Having fingers. 2. Having leaflets like fingers; digitate. 3. Marked with figures designating which finger should be used for each note. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fingered

Literary usage of Fingered

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Violin Playing as I Teach it by Leopold Auer (1921)
"fingered OCTAVES fingered octaves are, so far as I am able to discover, a product of the last quarter of the past century. There is a bare possibility, ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1880)
"OCCURRENCE OF THE WEB-fingered SEA-ROBIN ON THE COAST OF MAINE. — I wish to place on record the occurrence on the coast of Maine of ..."

3. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer (1900)
"So soon as early Dawn shone forth, the rosy-fingered, I called to my company, and commanded them that they should themselves climb the ship and loose the ..."

4. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1805)
"The root consists of many thick clasping fibres. Stalk simple, various in length and thickness. Frond more or less deeply and copiously palmate or fingered, ..."

5. The Evolution of Man by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1879)
"Many-fingered and Five-fingered Vertebrates.—Com. parison of the Anterior Limbs (Pectoral Fins) and the Posterior Limbs (Ventral Fins). ..."

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