[f. FINGER sb. + -ED2.] Having or provided with fingers.
1. a. Of a person; chiefly in parasynthetic derivatives, as light-, rosy-, three-fingered.
a. 1529. Skelton, Elynour Rummyng, 40.
| A man would haue pytty | |
| To se how she is gumbed, | |
| Fyngered and thumbed, | |
| Gently ioynted, | |
| Gresed and annoynted | |
| Vp to the knockels. |
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., I. ii. The great looking-glass … reflects … Mrs. Veneering; fair, aquiline-nosed and fingered.
b. Of a glove, etc.; also in parasynthetic derivatives, as cut-fingered: see CUT ppl. a. 12.
1591. [see CUT ppl. a. 12].
1739. Mrs. Delany, Life & Corr. (1861), II. 35. I bespoke six pair of cut fingered gloves of the man at Gloucester.
1849. Southey, Comm.-pl. Bk., Ser. II. 584. The stalks of the leaves furnished stockings, and ladies fingered gloves.
2. Bot. a. Of a leaf or plant: Digitate. b. Of the fruit or root: Shaped like a finger.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., II. iv. 98. A fingered leaf, being from one foot-stalk divided into many segments, bearing a spike of flowers.
1758. Phil. Trans., I. 590. Spongia Americana capitata et digitata; The fingered sponge of Plumier.
1861. Miss Pratt, Flower. Pl., VI. 40. Fingered Sedge.
1883. Evang. Mag., XIII. Nov., 511. Sometimes the carpels fail to unite, and we get what are called ‘fingered citrons,’ and ‘horned oranges.’
