Part 4316

<hw>Fin"ger</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>To use the fingers in playing on an instrument.</def>

<i>Busby.</i>

<h1>Fingered</h1> <Xpage=561>

<hw>Fin"gered</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having fingers.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Having leaflets like fingers; digitate.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>Marked with figures designating which finger should be used for each note.</def>

<h1>Fingerer</h1> <Xpage=561>

<hw>Fin"ger*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who fingers; a pilferer.</def>

<h1>Fingering</h1> <Xpage=561>

<hw>Fin"ger*ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers.</def>

<blockquote>The mere sight and <b>fingering</b> of money. <i>Grew.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in playing on a musical instrument, in typewriting, etc.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The marking of the notes of a piece of music to guide or regulate the action or use of the fingers.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Delicate work made with the fingers.</def>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Fingerling</h1> <Xpage=561>

<hw>Fin"ger*ling</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Finger</ets> + <ets>-ling</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A young salmon. See <er>Parr</er>.</def>

<h1>Fingle-fangle</h1> <Xpage=561>

<hw>Fin"gle-fan`gle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <ets>fangle</ets>.]</ety> <def>A trifle.</def> <mark></mark>

<i>Hudibras.</i>

<h1>Fingrigo</h1> <Xpage=561>

<hw>Fin"gri*go</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Fingrigos</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[So called in Jamaica.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus <spn>Pisonia</spn>. The fruit is a kind of berry.</def>

<h1>Finial</h1> <Xpage=561>

<hw>Fin"*i*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>finire</ets> to finish, end. See <er>Finish</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itself.</def>

<h1>Finical</h1> <Xpage=561>

<hw>Fin"i*cal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Fine</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <def>Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious.</def> "<i>Finical</i> taste."

<i>Wordsworth.</i>

<blockquote>The gross style consists in giving no detail, the <b>finical</b> in giving nothing else. <i>Hazlitt.</i></blockquote>