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Definition of Forefingers
1. forefinger [n] - See also: forefinger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forefingers
Literary usage of Forefingers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Department of Archaeology, Free Museum of Science and Art by University of Pennsylvania, University Museum (1905)
"String on thumbs and forefingers. Grasp both strings with the other three fingers
... Turn forefingers inward through thumb loops and take thumb loops up on ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1803)
"... thrown from his two forefingers; and in this way puts an end to his life,—The
former translation, by calling these stones, the " shells " of the date, ..."
3. The History and Poetry of Finger-rings by Charles Edwards (1855)
"Investiture of Archbishops and Bishops, by delivery of a Ring ; Cardinal's Ring;
Extension of the two forefingers und Thumb. 9. Serjeant's Ring. 10. ..."
4. An Introduction to Vertebrate Embryology: Based on the Study of the Frog and by Albert Moore Reese (1904)
"The thumbs should, at first, be closely pressed against the forefingers, and
should be ... The forefingers, which should, in reality, be the only ones which ..."
5. Curiosities of Savage Life by James Greenwood (1865)
"The Pawnees imitate a wolf's ears with the two forefingers—the right hand is
always understood unless otherwise specified—extended together, upright, ..."