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The little finger.
“The thumb, in chiromancy, we give to Venus,
The forefinger to Jove, the midst to Saturn,
The ring to Sol, the least to Mercury.”
Ben Jonson: The Alchemist, i. l.
⁂ If pointed it denotes eloquence, if square it denotes sound judgment.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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