fingie

Noun

finger (plural fingers)

1. A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other animals.
   • Humans have two hands and ten fingers. Each hand has one thumb and four fingers.
2. Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly
   • The starfish eats with five fingers.1915, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, “The How and Why Library”, in Life, Section VIII
3. The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
4. One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
5. One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
6. Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly
   • ...spires whose ‘silent finger points to Heaven’...1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, page 250

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