1. Having or resembling a finger or fingers; often used in combination
   "three-fingered cartoon characters"; "the fingered roots of giant trees"; "rosy-fingered"

1. Feel or handle with the fingers
   "finger the binding of the book";
   - thumb
    
2. Examine by touch
   "The customer fingered the sweater";
   - feel
    
3. [informal] Recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
   "She fingered the man on the 'wanted' poster";
   - identify, place
    
4. Indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments
   "The piano teacher fingered the difficult passage in the sonata"
    
5. [informal] Search for on the computer
   "I fingered my boss and found that he is not logged on in the afternoons"
    
6. [informal] Sexually stimulate using a finger or fingers
   "He fingered her gently";

See also: digitate, fingerlike

Type of: designate, determine, examine, indicate, look for, point, search, see, seek, set, show, touch

Antonym: fingerless

Encyclopedia: Fingered