chirologistn.
/kʌɪˈrɒlədʒɪst/ One who makes the hand a subject of study.
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a1843 R. Southey Doctor (1847) VI. 341 ‘Nature’ says a Cheirologist, ‘was a careful workman’.
1872 M. Collins Two Plunges for Pearl I. ix. 197 Cheirologists know that it takes many generations to confer patrician form upon the fingers.
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n.a1843- to sweat it out
- to sweat on the top-line
- to sweat on the topline
- to sweat one's guts out
- to sweat the small stuff
- to sweep a person off his feet
- to sweep off
- to sweep off his feet
- to sweep something under the carpet
- to sweep something under the rug
- to sweep the board
- to sweep the deck or decks
- to sweep the deck or usually decks
- to sweep the stakes
- to sweep the table
- to sweep to gage
- to sweep under the carpet
- to sweep under the rug
- to sweeten the pill
- to swelt one's heart
- to swerve from, shun, refuse one's steps
- to swerve out of kind
- to swim against the stream or the tide
- to swim between two waters
- to swim between two waters occasionally also streams