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middle finger
The finger having the position in the middle of the five; the second finger.
Cf. ‘middlest finger’ in middle a. 1 (quots. c 900, c 1290).
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 158/35 Medius, uel impudicus, middelfinger. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxix. (1495) 140 The thyrde fyngre is the mydle fingre, and hyght Inpudicus also. 1643Steer tr. Exp. Chyrurg. vi. 21 There followed..onely two pustels, the one in her thumbe, the other by her middle finger. 1787Hunter Whales in Phil. Trans. LXXVII. 385 In the fore-finger there are five bones, in the middle and ring-finger seven. 1861[see finger n. 1]. |