Word Meanings - HOP-THUMB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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• THUMBLESS
  Without a thumb. Darwin.
• THUMBKIN
  An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.
• THUMBED
  1. Having thumbs. 2. Soiled by handling.
• THUMB
  The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex. Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. Chaucer. Thumb band, a twist of anything as thick as the thumb. Mortimer.
• THUMBBIRD
  The goldcrest.
• THUMBSCREW
  1. A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger. 2. An old instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw; a thumbkin.
• BETHUMB
  To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books. Poe.
• NORTHUMBRIAN
  Of or pertaining to Northumberland in England. -- n.
• HOP-O'-MY-THUMB; HOP-THUMB
  A very diminutive person. liwell.
• HOP-THUMB
  See HOP-O'-MY-THUMB
• TEAR-THUMB
  A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.
• LADY'S THUMB
  An annual weed , having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.