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1688 J. Phillips tr. Du Vignau Turkish Secretary 24 The Eyes, Motions of the Face, the Finger signs [Fr. les signes des doigts] and gestures of the two Lovers, said more than the most Eloquent tongue could have done.

1711 E. Ward Life Don Quixote iv. xvi. 307 Signing as many Christian Types Upon his Breast, with Finger-wipes.

1828 Morning Post 4 July A miniature harp, for the practice of finger-movements.

1857 Harper's Mag. Dec. 23 They twitch and push each other, with many shrugs and finger gestures.

1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 68 The ancient Egyptians..used to play at some kind of finger-game.

1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art xi. 242 Italians..have a long tradition of controlled finger-gesture, going back to the ancient game of micare digitis.

1953 J. S. Huxley Evol. in Action iv. 110 She [sc. Helen Keller]..realized that this particular combination of finger-signs ‘meant the wonderful cool something’ that she was feeling.

1980 Lancet 5 Apr. 746/2 He or she will still be able to make a small finger movement in response to any nociceptive stimulus.

2008 E. Tucker Children's Folklore ii. 32 Once children are old enough to go to school, they learn different finger games from friends.

2013 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Mar. b9/3 The problem of data leakage is as old as someone taking a carbon copy home on the weekend. What is different today is how people can take data with a finger swipe.