finger counting (finggerkoun"ting)

Counting upon the fingers. They may have adopted the reverse order, from thumb to little finger, as many savages do, and as in fact the Greeks and Romans did with that later and more complicated system of finger counting which we find in use in the first century of our era. Gow , Greek Mathematics, § 8. finger-cymbals (fing'gėr-simbalz), n . pl . Cas tanets. fingered (fing'gėrd), a. 1. Having fingers: commonly in composition with a qualifying term: as, five - fingered. Fingered and thumbed. fingerer (fing'gėr-ėr), n. One who fingers; one who handles that to which he has no right; a pilferer. Webster.