(anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
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Humans have two hands and ten fingers. Each hand has one thumb and four fingers.
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[M]aking a Cut here big enough to put her Finger in, which ſhe thruſts under the Guts, and with it rakes or tears out the Stone that lies neareſt to it.
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1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion […], London: James Hodges; B. Collins, →OCLC, page 157:
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Each finger extended represents one-eighth of a cent. Thus when all four fingers and the thumb are extended, all being spread out from one another, it means five-eighths.
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1916, “The Finger Talk of Chicago's Wheat-Pit”, in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 89, p. 81:
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In 1993 [Victor Candia] noticed that the fingers of his left hand were starting to curl up as he played [on his guitar]. It felt to him as if a magnet in his palm were preventing him from opening them. A week later, he could not play at all.
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2014 March 29, “Don’t cramp my style”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8880: