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4 definitions found 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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