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fingers and toes

Anbury \An"bur*y\, Ambury \Am"bur*y\, n. [AS. ampre, ompre, a crooked swelling vein: cf. Prov. E. amper a tumor with inflammation. Cf. the first syllable in agnail, and berry a fruit.]

  1. (Far.) A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen.

  2. A disease of the roots of turnips, etc.; -- called also fingers and toes.

Usage examples of "fingers and toes".

Despite the layers he wore, his fingers and toes were beginning to feel it.

Writhing cilia, covered with long hairs, grew from where his fingers and toes had been.

Scrambling over the freezing earth, he ignored the pain in his arm and the spreading numbness in his fingers and toes.

It gnaws at you until your fingers and toes and hands and feet and arms and legs turn rotten and fall off.

They slid down a wall, fingers and toes gripping, and dropped to the concrete.

But as her fingers and toes began to thaw, pain burned through them.

He liked how it felt too, pulling himself up a wall stone by stone, fingers and toes digging hard into the small crevices between.

Other people came running toward him, all with the short stature and unusually bng fingers and toes of the cathedral's construction crew.

She sat down in front of the newly laid fire and warmed her fingers and toes at the blaze.

I didn't want to stop, but if I went on, Gretchen would hold to her promise to find me and break my fingers and toes.

You cannot control a motorcycle if you have broken fingers and toes.