mid-finger

This done, he posited his left hand wholly open, the mid-finger wholly excepted, which was perpendicularly placed upon the palm thereof, and set it just in the room where his codpiece had been.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

This done, he posited his left hand wholly open, the mid-finger wholly excepted, which was perpendicularly placed upon the palm thereof, and set it just in the room where his codpiece had been.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

How could one associate a rodent perhaps as long as a mid-finger with these three - foot, insane hunters?

Three Against The Witch World Norton, Andre 1965

She "plucked one herbe called Meleflower, sitting on her right knee, and pulling it betwixt the mid-finger and thumbe, and saying: _In nominee Patris, Filii, et Spiritus Sancti_."

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

I have heard it asserted that doctors know this, and never touch a sore but with the mid-finger.

Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century James Napier 1847

This done, he posited his left hand wholly open, the mid-finger wholly excepted, which was perpendicularly placed upon the palm thereof, and set it just in the room where his codpiece had been.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518