单词 | first finger |
释义 | > as lemmasfirst finger first finger n. (in the hand of humans and other primates) the finger next to the thumb; the forefinger, the index finger; (occasionally also, in non-human primates) the second digit of the hind limb; (in other tetrapods) the first (radial) digit on the forefoot, corresponding to the thumb. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun] > forefinger teacherc1290 lickpot1387 index1398 showing finger?a1425 forefingerc1450 first finger?1530 insignitor1598 demonstrator1657 trigger finger1829 pointling1840 index finger1849 index-digit1866 arrow finger1875 weft-finger1880 ?1530 R. Whitford Werke for Housholders sig. F.i Teche them also to knowe the names of the fyue wyttes, and to put the fyrst fynger of the ryght hande vnto ye instrumentes of the same wyttes. 1672 J. Playford Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 6) ii. 96 You stop with your first Finger on the first Fret, and shake with your second Finger as close to it as you can. 1771 C. Burney tr. G. Tartini Let. to Maddalena Lombardini 7 Playing it..with the first finger upon G on the first string. 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 59 Lemures... First finger of the hind feet after the thumb terminated by a sharp turned up nail. 1837 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds I. 34 Those [quills] on the first finger, g, are named the alula, or spurious wing. 1887 J. White Anc. Hist. Maori I. iii. 41 They..dipped the first finger of their left hands in the blood of Hotu-a and held their hands up to heaven. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xviii. 481 A pad on the male's first finger..is used as a holdfast when the male [common frog] grips the female in the coupling or embrace. 1991 R. Fuller Stares xv. 113 Her renunciation of cigarettes was recent, for her right first finger was still brown. 2012 Scuba Apr. 72/2 Three-finger mitts..keep the last three fingers together for warmth, while retaining the dexterity of your thumb and first finger. < as lemmas |
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