Palmistry

//ˈpɑːmɪstɹi// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand wordnet
  3. 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. 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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