† 1. A stone sufficiently small to be cast by the hand. Also attrib. Obs.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xi. 46. A lytil þeine, as it ware a fynger stane cast, es anoþer chapell.
1688. I. Clayton, in Phil. Trans., XVII. 984. They are so nigh the Shoar, that a Man may almost fling a Finger-stone on Board.
2. A cylindrical stone, convexly tapering to a point; a belemnite.
1773. Johnson (ed. 4), Finger-stone, a fossil resembling an arrow.
1802–3. trans. Pallas’s Trav. (1812), II. 229. We remarked a whimsical mixture of broken belemnites, or finger-stones, lying together in their fragments.
