Chiromancer

One who foretells future events by an inspection and examination of the palm of the hand. "To chiromancer's cheaper art repair." - Dryden. Chiromancy, (kir'ō-man-se,) n. [Gr. cheir, hand, and manteia, gift of divination.) The imaginary art of divination by the lines of the hand. According to the science of C. , the lines on the palm of the hand are divided into principal and inferior: the former are five the line of life; the line of the liver or natural mean; the line of the brain; the thoral line, or line of fortune; the dragon's tail, or dis criminal line, between the hand "The sparrows chirrup on the roof." Tennyson.