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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Index \In"dex\, n.; pl E. {Indexes}, L. {Indices}(?). [L.: cf
F. index. See {Indicate}, {Diction}.]
1. That which points out that which shows, indicates,
manifests, or discloses.
Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of
plants. --Arbuthnot.
2. That which guides, points out informs, or directs; a
pointer or a hand that directs to anything as the hand of
a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other
graduated instrument. In printing, a sign [[hand]] used to
direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; --
called also {fist}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fist \Fist\, n. [OE. fist, fust, AS f?st; akin to D. vuist,
OHG. f?st, G. faust, and prob. to L. pugnus, Gr ? fist, ?
with the fist. Cf {Pugnacious}, {Pigmy}.]
1. The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the
closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the
purpose of striking a blow.
Who grasp the earth and heaven with my fist.
--Herbert.
2. The talons of a bird of prey. [Obs.]
More light than culver in the falcon's fist.
--Spenser.
3. (print.) the index mark [[hand]], used to direct special
attention to the passage which follows.
{Hand over fist} (Naut.), rapidly; hand over hand.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fist \Fist\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fisted}; p. pr & vb n.
{Fisting}.]
1. To strike with the fist. --Dryden.
2. To gripe with the fist. [Obs.] --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
fist
n : a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for
hitting) [syn: {clenched fist}]
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