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Fingered

Fingered \Fin"gered\, a.

  1. Having fingers.

  2. (Bot.) Having leaflets like fingers; digitate.

  3. (Mus.) Marked with figures designating which finger should be used for each note.

Fingered

Finger \Fin"ger\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fingered; p. pr. & vb. n. Fingering.]

  1. To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with.

    Let the papers lie; You would be fingering them to anger me.
    --Shak.

  2. To touch lightly; to toy with.

  3. (Mus.)

    1. To perform on an instrument of music.

    2. To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing.

  4. To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin.
    --Shak.

  5. To execute, as any delicate work.

Wiktionary
fingered

vb. (en-past of: finger)

WordNet
fingered

adj. having or resembling a finger or fingers; often used in combination; "the fingered roots of giant trees"; "rosy-fingered"; "three-fingered cartoon characters" [ant: fingerless]

Usage examples of "fingered".

Philip went into the arbour, where Polly took possession of his lap, fingered his hair, and kissed his forehead and lips.

I fingered an odd-looking Beanie Baby with five legs that had been left on top of a small filing cabinet.

Lady Cestes fingered one of her many ornaments and studied the deck overhead.

She fingered the especially well-cut wheat stem cicatrice of the heresy.

The dominatrix fingered the cleft of the climaxing girl, probing the hot sphincter and launching Chloe into renewed spasms of delight.

She looked around her at the garden, while Coode fingered a piece of bass, and did nothing with it, and devotedly gazed at her.

All the same, Krispos fingered his thick, dark, curly beard, gladder than glad he could grow it.

Still, at thought that sometime during the day now close at hand he was to see the last of this woman who had stood there before him in his cabin, with dark eyes looking into his, with eager, oval face upturned to his, with all that glory of lustrous hair a flood about her shoulders, something unknown, unwonted, fingered at the latchets of his heart.

The temporary night clerk was deep into his Penthouse magazine, eyes inched from the pulchritudinous photos as he absently fingered one of his terrific collection of zits.

The Queller snapped a lever, pulled a bolt, fingered a whorl, and the lens at the end of the device glowed with poison-coloured light.

Scott fingered the blade of his smatchet and slipped it into the belt sheath.

Her body lifted, writhing away from him as he took a small two fingered tawse from the box.

Savn fingered a yarn-dyed pattern of sharply angled red and white lines against a dark green fabric, while Mae and Pae chatted with Threader about how His Lordship was staying in his manor house near Smallcliff, and Polyi looked bored.

He fingered his torc as if his right to wear it was tied to his ability to speak.

He fingered the bulbous end of his torc while he mulled over the situation.