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Yapock :: Yapock (n.) A South American aquatic opossum (Chironectes variegatus) found in Guiana and Brazil. Its hind feet are webbed, and its fore feet do not have an opposable thumb for climbing. Called also water opossum..

Thumb :: Thumb (v. i.) To play with the thumb or thumbs; to play clumsily; to thrum.

Thumb :: Thumb (v. t.) To play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and fingers; as, to thumb over a tune..

Thumbed :: Thumbed (a.) Soiled by handling.

Opposable :: Opposable (a.) Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger..

Palette :: Palette (n.) A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments..

Northumbrian :: Northumbrian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Northumberland.

Thumbed :: Thumbed (imp. & p. p.) of Thum.

Hop-thumb :: Hop-thumb (n.) A very diminutive person.

Castanets :: Castanets (n. pl.) Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars..

Finger :: Finger (n.) One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb..

Pollex :: Pollex (n.) The first, or preaxial, digit of the fore limb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; the thumb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the bastard wing..

Torture :: Torture (n.) Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel..

Bouge :: Bouge (v. t.) To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb..

Thumbbird :: Thumbbird (n.) The goldcrest.

Persicaria :: Persicaria (n.) See Lady's thumb.

Span :: Span (v. t.) The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.

Ateles :: Ateles (n.) A genus of American monkeys with prehensile tails, and having the thumb wanting or rudimentary. See Spider monkey, and Coaita..

Forefinger :: Forefinger (n.) The finger next to the thumb; the index.

Fillip :: Fillip (v. t.) To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger..

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