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forefinger

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forefinger
the finger next to the thumb

forefinger [′fȯr‚fiŋ·gər]
(anatomy)
The index finger; the first finger next to the thumb.


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The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the speaker's square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster's sleeve.
But Pollyanna found it, and ran her shaking forefinger down through the C's to "Chilton.
" Joan Durbeyfield, as she spoke, curved a sodden thumb and forefinger to the shape of the letter C, and used the other forefinger as a pointer, "'At the present moment,' he says to your father, 'your heart is enclosed all round there, and all round there; this space is still open,' 'a says.
 
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