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Palmistry
//ˈpɑːmɪstɹi// noun
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Noun
- 1 Telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand. uncountable, usually
"Chiromantie is a coniecturyng by beholdyng the lynes, or wryncles of the handes called commonly Palmistry."
- 2 telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand wordnet
- 3 A book on palmistry; a system of palmistry. countable, usually
"No living palmistries can spell The bird-runes on the stretched silk of her hand"
- 4 A dexterous use or trick of the hand. obsolete, rare, uncountable, usually
"1711, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volume 2, No. 130, 30 July, 1711, London: J. and R. Tonson, 12th edition, 1739, p. 182, In the Height of his Good-humour, meeting a common Beggar upon the Road who was no Conjuror, as he went to relieve him he found his Pocket was pick’d: That being a Kind of Palmistry at which this Race of Vermin are very dextrous."
Etymology
From Middle English palmestrie. Equivalent to palm + -ist + -ry.
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