thumbikin (thumikin)

Same as thumbkin. [Scotch.] sions. The boot and the thumbikins could not extort con fes Ban croft, Hist. U. S., II. 410. thumbkin (thum'kin), n. [Also thumkin , thumb i kin; or set of thumb-screws; the torture by this instrument. See cut under thumb -screw. [Scotch.] [S Bloody rope, and swift bullet, and trenchant swords, and pain of boots and thumkins. Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, x. thumb-latch (thum'lach), n. A kind of do or latch in which a lever pa ing through the door raises the latch. The lever is made to play from the outside by pre ing upon the broadened end of it, generally with the thumb. See cut under latch. thumble (thum'les), a. [ When to a house I come and see The genius waste full more than free; The servants thumble e , yet to eat With lawle e tooth the floure of wheat. Herrick , Leprosie in Houses. thumb-mark (thum'märk), n . A mark left by the impre ion of the of the thumb, as on the leaves of a book; hence, any mark resembling this. thumb-nut (thum'nut), n. A nut for a bolt or screw having wings wings which give a purchase to the thumb in turning it. thumb-pad (thum'pad), n. A pad-like formation over the th inner me metacarpal bone of some batrachians. thumb-piece (thum'pēs), n. 1. A plate-shaped appendage to the handle of a ve el, meant to receive the thumb of the hand that grasps it, and afford a good hold.-2. The disk or button by pre ing which a spring is opened. This, in ornamental furniture, snuff-boxes, etc., is often very richly adorned, or made of precious material, as gold, or is sometimes a precious stone mounted in gold. In vio 3. In needle- manuf., a piece of stout leather used to protect the hand in pre ing the needle blanks against a grindstone to form the points. -4. On any piece of mechanism, a projection which is intended to be worked by the thumb. thumb-position (thum'pō-zish"on), n. loncello - playing, a shift in which the thumb of the left hand is used as a temporary nut. thumb-pot (thum'pot), n. A very small pot used by florists for starting slips or seedlings. thumb-ring (thum'ring), n. 1. A ring designed to be worn upon the thumb: often a seal-ring, and in that case probably worn only occasionally, as when occupied in busine . When I was about thy years... I could have crept into any alderman's thumb - ring. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 365. Though you presume Satan a subtle thing, And may have heard he's worn in a thumb - ring . B. Jonson, Devil is an A , Prol. One that is good only in Riches, and wears nothing rich about him, but the Gout, or a thumb - ring with his Grandsirs Sheep-mark or Grannams butter-print on 't, to seal Baggs, Acquittances, and Counterpanes. Brome , Northern La , ii. 1. I believe, when he is dead, you will wear him in thumb rings, as the Turks did Scanderbeg. Dryden, Epistle to the Whigs. 2. A ring fastened to the guard of a dagger or sword to receive the thumb. Double thumb-rings are sometimes made for fixing the dagger on a staff, or at the end of a lance, to resist cavalry.