forefinger

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"Forefinger for Shepherd's Crook" was what Mrs. Cryptic-Sparkler had said of Sir Rebus.

From A Christmas Garland by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

Now and then he put a Forefinger to his Brow and glanced at the Mirror to make sure that he still resembled William Cullen Bryant.

From Fables in Slang by Newman, Clyde J.

The grey man touched each one of the ten little fingers, and as he touched them he said their names: "Little Thumb; Forefinger; Thimble-finger; Ring-finger; Little Finger; Little Thumb; Forefinger; Thimble-finger; Ring-finger; Little Finger!"

From Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling by Bryant, Sara Cone

Forefinger, fōr′fing-gėr, n. the finger next the thumb.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

A gesture sign for sunrise, morning, is: Forefinger of right hand crooked to represent half of the sun's disk and pointed or extended to the left, then slightly elevated.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick