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Definition of Ring finger

1. Noun. The third finger (especially of the left hand).

Definition of Ring finger

1. Noun. Finger between middle finger and little finger; the "third finger" (UK) or the "fourth finger" (US), especially of the left hand. ('''The''' ring finger is the left hand; '''a''' ring finger is either hand.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Ring finger

1. Fourth finger. Synonym: digitus annularis, fourth finger. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ring Finger

Literary usage of Ring finger

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"In the 22 cases in which both hands were affected the fingers involved in each were as follows: ring finger of one hand and ring and little fingers of the ..."

2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"ring finger. Priests used to wear their ring on the fore-finger (which represents the Holy Ghost) in token ... The ring finger. Mr. Henry Swinburne, in his ..."

3. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"Index much shorter than "ring " finger on both sides. 3. ... In all the rest, and in both sexes, the ring finger is always the longest, and, ..."

4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"In this position (between middle and ring finger) the end of the thread is drawn through the loop and the second part of the knot tied. ..."

5. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1842)
"... that its third finger was decorated with a greater number than any other, and was considered by them, as by us, par excellence, the ring finger ^f; ..."

6. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"RING-FINGER. The finger on which the ring is placed in marriage. ... As for the ring-finger, which li «о called, because commonly a ring is worn on It, ..."

7. Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1837)
"... considered by them, as by us, par excellence, the ring finger ^f; though -there is no evidence of its having been so honoured at the marriage ceremony. ..."

8. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1903)
"... string between little finger and ring finger. Take up the palmar string between the strings of the long loop, and pass it over middle and ring fingers ..."

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