fingeringn.¹

Brit.

/ˈfɪŋɡ(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈfɪŋɡərɪŋ/

Forms: late Middle English fyngerynge, late Middle English fyngyryng, late Middle English fynguryng, 1500s fingeringe, 1500s fingeryng, 1500s– fingering, 1500s–1600s fingring.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: finger v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < finger v. + -ing suffix¹.

1. Music.

a. The action of playing an instrument with the fingers; the placement and movement of an instrumentalist's fingers while playing.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > [noun] > fingering

fingeringa1450

touch1597

finger1711

fingerwork1836

a1450 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Tanner) (1879) Prol. l. 91 As an harpe obeieth to the honde And maketh it soune after his fyngerynge [c1500 Selden fingering].

a1475 in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1957) 8 271 Item the x day off Marche anno lxxiij payd ffor vj davnsys and myne fyngyryng on the harpe ix s.

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 9^v Instrumentes..whyche standeth by fine and quicke fingeringe.

1593 Passionate Morrice sig. E4^v Shee tooke her lute singing to her fingering this sonnet.

1615 J. Swetnam Araignm. Lewde, Idle, Froward, & Vnconstant Women 21 Layes enticed her Louers by her sweet singing and pleasant fingering of Instruments of musicke.

1664 J. Playford Brief Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 4) ii. 90 The Rule of true Fingering.

1746 W. Tansur New Musical Gram. v. 79 For the Nicety of Fingering, observe, that whenever you skip a Fret or Stop, there to leave a Finger.

1798 Monthly Mag. Aug. 134/1 The rules given for fingering..refer to general practice, and may be rendered extremely serviceable to a studious observer.

1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 15 I learnt much music..fine sleights of hand And unimagined fingering.

1888 A. A. Clappé Band Teacher's Assistant 29 Any man who has mastered the technic of the flute has gained a key to the fingering of all wood and reed instruments.

1927 Musical Times 68 509/1 So far as fingering and bowing are concerned, any violinist is already, without further practice, a ready-trained violist.

1968 P. Oliver Screening Blues iii. 90 Unorthodox fingering and the trial-and-error process of finding his way along the fingerboard of his guitar.

2010 Cathedral Music May 29/1 He was fortunate in having organ lessons from Hans Klotz of Cologne who gave him a disciplined grounding, insisting on meticulous fingering.

b. A set of numbers or signs supplied in addition to the notes in a piece of written music, indicating the appropriate positioning of the fingers on an instrument during its performance; the method or system of representing the positioning of the fingers in this way.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > fingering

fingering1879

1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 527/2 The earliest German fingering..was the same as the present English system.

1918 Pacific Coast Musical Rev. 28 Dec. 12/2 The scheme of indicating..the left hand by fingering printed below the notes.

1992 Strad Feb. 108/2 If you and your stand partner need to write different fingerings, then the outside player's fingering goes above.

2007 T. Ingold Lines i. 32 Normally, the fingering is written..in Chinese characters, each of which is the name for a particular arrangement of the fingers.

a. gen. The action of finger v. (in various senses); esp. the action of touching or manipulating something with the fingers.

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a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 249 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 306 Bekenyng, fynguryng, non þou vse.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. f. 77 He..gotte his liuyng wyth lyght fingeringe.

1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Bj Measure the lawe of sounde By fingering, or by eare.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 159 I would not haue suffred them [sc. the Romans] to haue reigned one day longer, by selling their libertie, they should haue become bond. The fellow said much, and that state felt more, when they fell to fingering.

1601 J. Mush Dialogue Secular Priest & Lay Gentleman 89 But it is noted that either all or the most great summes, come to the fingering of certaine lay men, most intirely deuoted, and familiar with the Iesuits.

1603 A. Dent Ruine of Rome xxi. 296 Let vs long till wee come to the fingering and possession of it, euen as the heire longeth till hee come to the possession of his lands.

1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 466 Vzza had better haue ventured the falling, than the fingering of the Arke, though it tottered.

1698 Loyalty vindicated 8 They were indeed most forward to take Oaths, when they were to gain by them, and to have the fingring of the Revenue.

1760 Impostors Detected I. 251 He shall not have the fingering of her any more than myself.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. i. iii. 52 The Directors..had expected the fingering of the money.

1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table i. 31 Covers browned..with..the fingering of..book-misers.

1904 Lustful Mem. Young & Passionated Girl 62 His fingering and manipulations soon got my desires almost pass [sic] bearing.

1976 W. Gass Philos. Inq. on being Blue 10 That unpocketed peppermint which has, from fingering, become unwrapped.

2013 Sun Reporter (San Francisco) 26 Dec. The C.I.A.'s support of minority-rule in South Africa did not stop with the fingering of Mandela.

b. spec. The action or fact of carrying out work requiring particular care or dexterity with the fingers; work of this sort; (also) an example of such work. Also figurative. Cf. finger v. 8, fingerwork n. 1. Now rare.

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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > finger-work

fingering1591

fingerwork1616

1591 E. Spenser Muiopotmos in Complaints sig. X Nor anie skil'd in loupes of fingring fine.

1808 J. Duncan Pract. & Descriptive Ess. Art of Weaving: Pt. II v. 219 In working brocades, one half of the fingering is generally performed by the weaver, and the other half by a boy or girl, employed for the purpose.

1860 Southern Planter July 415/2 It is another poetic peculiarity of watch-making..that the more delicate fingering of woman is found to work best at it.

1881 Quiz 1 Apr. 14/2 The front [of the dress]..was simply exquisite, and the fingering of an artiste.

1922 F. Anslow Pract. Millinery xiv. 162 A branch of millinery that requires skilful fingering is the making of decorative ‘fruit’.

1927 Studies 16 53 The exquisite ‘fingering’ of the verse in the former [poem] has already caught the attention of some of the critics.

1935 P. R. Ramachandra Rao Decay Indian Industries 27 The weaving of the muslin was an art of the highest order, doubtless requiring a remarkably delicate sense of touch and exquisite fingering.

Compounds

General attributive (chiefly in sense 1).

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1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1252 I am better acquainted with the fingring Musicke and manuall practise than otherwise [Fr. la manuelle prattique de la musique, Gk. χειρουργικῷ μέρει τῆς μουσικῆς].

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 255 A cheat, That lets his false Dice freely run..But never lets a true one stir Without some fingering Trick or Slur.

1820 Rep. Arts, Manufactures, & Agric. 36 338 The key B natural is nearly straight, and rises up at its extremity to form the fingering part in the form of a button.

1883 Contemp. Rev. June 814 Not from any fingering induction of external details.

1940 Ling. Inst. (Univ. Michigan) 42 92 Ser. of 64 books, fingering guides, charts, [etc.].

1976 A. C. Baines Brass Instruments: Hist. & Devel. vii. 201 This system forms the basis of Caussinus's fingering instructions.

2000 G. Horne Intermediate Acoustic Guitar vii. 95 Some fingering tips for the decorative notes are shown below.

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fingeringn.²

Brit.

/ˈfɪŋɡ(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈfɪŋɡərɪŋ/

Forms: 1800s fingis (plural, probably transmission error), 1800s– fingering; Scottish pre-1700 fingarinn, pre-1700 fingarrin, pre-1700 fingarume, pre-1700 fingarun, pre-1700 fingerum, pre-1700 fingrain, pre-1700 fingrin, pre-1700 fingring, pre-1700 fingrome, pre-1700 finȝering, pre-1700 finȝeringe, pre-1700 phingrim, pre-1700 1700s fingrum, pre-1700 1700s–1800s fingram, pre-1700 1700s– fingering, 1700s fingrim, 1700s fingrine, 1700s fingrom, 1800s fing'rin', 1800s fingerin, 1900s fingerin'.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: finger n., finger v., -ing suffix¹, -ing suffix³.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Probably < finger n. or finger v., perhaps on account of an (unidentified) process in the production of the material (perhaps compare finger v. 8) + either -ing suffix¹ or perhaps -ing suffix³. It is possible that sense 2 is the original sense, and that the fabric was woven from such yarn. With sense 2 perhaps compare quot. 1777 at fingered adj.² 1.A derivation < French fin grain , lit. ‘fine grain’ has also been suggested (compare the forms fingrain, fingram at Forms), but it seems more likely that this is a folk etymology (after grogram n.), especially since forms of the type finȝering, fingering are attested from the outset.

†1. Originally and chiefly Scottish. A kind of fine woollen cloth; a piece of this. Obsolete.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > stout or durable > serge > types of

fingering1611

serge-wale1682

denim1695

sagathy1707

caddis1714

sergette1858

fleur1883

1611 Brechin Test. II. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Ane govne of finȝeringe,..ane gaircull of finȝeringe..Ane finȝering plaid.

1634 Edinb. Test. LVI. f. 362^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at cited word Xxiiij ellis braid fingrum.

1661 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1661/1/338 Phingrim, being a sort of plaiding, ilk hundred ells.

1685 A. Skene Mem. Royall-burghs Scotl. 106 There is no Nation in Europe can serve them at an easier rate, not onely in Plaiding and Fingrams but also in such other Cloaths.

1707 G. Miège Present State Great Brit. ii. ii. 24 Large Flocks of Sheep they have in Scotland produce abundance of Wool, from whence come..Fingrines, Serges [etc.].

1719 Act 6 Geo. I c. 13 An Act for..preventing Frauds..in manufacturing Serges..and Fingrums.

1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 105 At Aberdeen, and Countries adjacent, large Quantities of our own coarse tarred Wooll are manufactured into coarse Serges, called Fingrams.

1782 F. Douglas Gen. Descr. E. Coast Scotl. 139 About fifty or sixty years ago, they had a manufacture in this country, called Fingerings, or Serge, a slight woollen stuff, for which there was a great demand.

1864 A. W. Moss & H. C. Sinclair Let. 9 Jan. in A. Johnson Papers (1983) VI. 552 The goods taken were composed principly of silk Dress goods, Boys & Childrens Readymade Clothing, Calicos, Delanos, Fingis [sic] and a general assortment of Dress Trimmings.

2. Originally Scottish (chiefly North American in later use). Fine wool or yarn used esp. to knit socks. Frequently attributive, as fingering weight, fingering wool, fingering yarn, etc.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > woollen > for sewing or knitting > specific

Norfolk thread1407

garn1483

crewel1494

caddis1530

worsted yarn1533

worsted1546

fingering1681

German wool1807

wheel-spuna1825

Berlin wool1841

ice wool1876

Berlin1881

eis wool1882

quick-knit1935

bawneen1958

1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 9 There Fingram Stockins spun on Rocks lyes.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Fingerin, worsted spun of combed wool, on the small wheel.

1875 L. S. Floyer Plain Needlework 10 Fingering Yarn.

1885 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 30 Mar. 332/1 Stocking..knitted with German fingering wool.

1894 Westm. Gaz. 10 May 3/3 Stockings made from the best ‘fingerings’.

1901 T. M. James Longmans' Compl. Course Needlework iii. 300 Nos. 14 or 15 needles and 4-ply Scotch fingering, Welsh yarn, or Alloa yarn would do.

1915 Times 22 Jan. (Ann. Financial Review) 7/2 The unofficial orders for the home knitting of comforts have given the spinners of fingering-wool the busiest months in their history.

1982 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 6 Apr. There's a definite market for the finer yarns like Astra or the four-ply fingering.

2012 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 July a17 The yarn, fingering weight, is shades of sea glass, shimmering blues and greens.

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† fingeringn.³

Forms: 1600s–1800s fingerin, 1800s fingering.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: finger n., -ing suffix³.

Etymology: < finger n. + -ing suffix³, so called with reference to the spots resembling fingermarks on the fish's side.

English regional. Obsolete.

A young salmon or trout; a parr; = fingerling n. 2.Apparent later instances probably show errors for fingerling n.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > young > parr

graveling1587

pinka1641

tecon1653

fingering1686

brandling1754

laspring1760

parr1771

wrack-rider1794

salmon pink1805

fingerling1829

farthing-trout1865

1686 F. Willughby & J. Ray De Hist. Piscium iv. iv. 193 Branlins; nonnullis Fingerins, i.e. Digitales, dicti.

1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling i. ii. 27 On the Sides there are five or six Impressions of such a Form as tho' they had been made with Fingers; hence some give them the Title of Fingerins.

?1806 A. Mackintosh Driffield Angler i. iii. 34 (heading) The Samlet, Fingering-Parr, or Pink-Trout.

1819 A. Rees Cycl. XIV. (at cited word) Fingerin, in Ichthyology, a name given to the Samlet or Salmulus..which is the least of the Trout kind, and supposed by several, without sufficient reason, as Pennant conceives, to be the fry of the salmon.

a1823 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XIV. 585/1 In some other parts of England [it is usually called] a fingering, from the resemblance of its spotted streaks to the human fingers.

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fingeringadj.

Brit.

/ˈfɪŋɡ(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈfɪŋɡərɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: finger v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < finger v. + -ing suffix². With sense 2 compare later finger v. 4a(b).

1. That plays a musical instrument with the fingers; attentive to proper fingering when playing an instrument. rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [adjective] > fingering

fingering1712

fingered1813

1712 Spectator No. 338. ⁋2 Those fingering Gentlemen should be informed that they ought to suit their Airs to the Place.

2012 D. Liebman & L. Porter What it Is xi. 302 Trane was a disciplined, practiced, fingering kind of guy.

†2. Inclined to petty or excessively fastidious inquiry or manipulation; fussy, finicky. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > brisk or active > bustling or fussing > about trifles

busy-idle1611

nugiperous1647

fidgeting1672

niffy-naffy1765

fingering1799

fussing1826

fussy1831

fiddle-faddling1834

spoffish1836

spoffy1860

fustling1867

1799 W. Wordsworth Poet's Epit. v Philosopher! a fingering slave.

1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etymol. 217 [He] would arrest the press to alter a comma; yet with all this fingering finicalness, has not left a single well-constructed paragraph in his whole writings!

1868 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 581/1 Actual facts, with which those fingering knaves, the scientific people, have tainted the age.

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n.¹a1450

n.²1611

n.³1686

adj.1712

单词	fingering
释义	fingeringn.¹ Brit. /ˈfɪŋɡ(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfɪŋɡərɪŋ/ Forms: late Middle English fyngerynge, late Middle English fyngyryng, late Middle English fynguryng, 1500s fingeringe, 1500s fingeryng, 1500s– fingering, 1500s–1600s fingring. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: finger v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < finger v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. Music. a. The action of playing an instrument with the fingers; the placement and movement of an instrumentalist's fingers while playing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > [noun] > fingering fingeringa1450 touch1597 finger1711 fingerwork1836 a1450 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Tanner) (1879) Prol. l. 91 As an harpe obeieth to the honde And maketh it soune after his fyngerynge [c1500 Selden fingering]. a1475 in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1957) 8 271 Item the x day off Marche anno lxxiij payd ffor vj davnsys and myne fyngyryng on the harpe ix s. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 9^v Instrumentes..whyche standeth by fine and quicke fingeringe. 1593 Passionate Morrice sig. E4^v Shee tooke her lute singing to her fingering this sonnet. 1615 J. Swetnam Araignm. Lewde, Idle, Froward, & Vnconstant Women 21 Layes enticed her Louers by her sweet singing and pleasant fingering of Instruments of musicke. 1664 J. Playford Brief Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 4) ii. 90 The Rule of true Fingering. 1746 W. Tansur New Musical Gram. v. 79 For the Nicety of Fingering, observe, that whenever you skip a Fret or Stop, there to leave a Finger. 1798 Monthly Mag. Aug. 134/1 The rules given for fingering..refer to general practice, and may be rendered extremely serviceable to a studious observer. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 15 I learnt much music..fine sleights of hand And unimagined fingering. 1888 A. A. Clappé Band Teacher's Assistant 29 Any man who has mastered the technic of the flute has gained a key to the fingering of all wood and reed instruments. 1927 Musical Times 68 509/1 So far as fingering and bowing are concerned, any violinist is already, without further practice, a ready-trained violist. 1968 P. Oliver Screening Blues iii. 90 Unorthodox fingering and the trial-and-error process of finding his way along the fingerboard of his guitar. 2010 Cathedral Music May 29/1 He was fortunate in having organ lessons from Hans Klotz of Cologne who gave him a disciplined grounding, insisting on meticulous fingering. b. A set of numbers or signs supplied in addition to the notes in a piece of written music, indicating the appropriate positioning of the fingers on an instrument during its performance; the method or system of representing the positioning of the fingers in this way. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > fingering fingering1879 1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 527/2 The earliest German fingering..was the same as the present English system. 1918 Pacific Coast Musical Rev. 28 Dec. 12/2 The scheme of indicating..the left hand by fingering printed below the notes. 1992 Strad Feb. 108/2 If you and your stand partner need to write different fingerings, then the outside player's fingering goes above. 2007 T. Ingold Lines i. 32 Normally, the fingering is written..in Chinese characters, each of which is the name for a particular arrangement of the fingers. 2. a. gen. The action of finger v. (in various senses); esp. the action of touching or manipulating something with the fingers. ΚΠ a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 249 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 306 Bekenyng, fynguryng, non þou vse. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. f. 77 He..gotte his liuyng wyth lyght fingeringe. 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Bj Measure the lawe of sounde By fingering, or by eare. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 159 I would not haue suffred them [sc. the Romans] to haue reigned one day longer, by selling their libertie, they should haue become bond. The fellow said much, and that state felt more, when they fell to fingering. 1601 J. Mush Dialogue Secular Priest & Lay Gentleman 89 But it is noted that either all or the most great summes, come to the fingering of certaine lay men, most intirely deuoted, and familiar with the Iesuits. 1603 A. Dent Ruine of Rome xxi. 296 Let vs long till wee come to the fingering and possession of it, euen as the heire longeth till hee come to the possession of his lands. 1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 466 Vzza had better haue ventured the falling, than the fingering of the Arke, though it tottered. 1698 Loyalty vindicated 8 They were indeed most forward to take Oaths, when they were to gain by them, and to have the fingring of the Revenue. 1760 Impostors Detected I. 251 He shall not have the fingering of her any more than myself. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. i. iii. 52 The Directors..had expected the fingering of the money. 1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table i. 31 Covers browned..with..the fingering of..book-misers. 1904 Lustful Mem. Young & Passionated Girl 62 His fingering and manipulations soon got my desires almost pass [sic] bearing. 1976 W. Gass Philos. Inq. on being Blue 10 That unpocketed peppermint which has, from fingering, become unwrapped. 2013 Sun Reporter (San Francisco) 26 Dec. The C.I.A.'s support of minority-rule in South Africa did not stop with the fingering of Mandela. b. spec. The action or fact of carrying out work requiring particular care or dexterity with the fingers; work of this sort; (also) an example of such work. Also figurative. Cf. finger v. 8, fingerwork n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > finger-work fingering1591 fingerwork1616 1591 E. Spenser Muiopotmos in Complaints sig. X Nor anie skil'd in loupes of fingring fine. 1808 J. Duncan Pract. & Descriptive Ess. Art of Weaving: Pt. II v. 219 In working brocades, one half of the fingering is generally performed by the weaver, and the other half by a boy or girl, employed for the purpose. 1860 Southern Planter July 415/2 It is another poetic peculiarity of watch-making..that the more delicate fingering of woman is found to work best at it. 1881 Quiz 1 Apr. 14/2 The front [of the dress]..was simply exquisite, and the fingering of an artiste. 1922 F. Anslow Pract. Millinery xiv. 162 A branch of millinery that requires skilful fingering is the making of decorative ‘fruit’. 1927 Studies 16 53 The exquisite ‘fingering’ of the verse in the former [poem] has already caught the attention of some of the critics. 1935 P. R. Ramachandra Rao Decay Indian Industries 27 The weaving of the muslin was an art of the highest order, doubtless requiring a remarkably delicate sense of touch and exquisite fingering. Compounds General attributive (chiefly in sense 1). ΚΠ 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1252 I am better acquainted with the fingring Musicke and manuall practise than otherwise [Fr. la manuelle prattique de la musique, Gk. χειρουργικῷ μέρει τῆς μουσικῆς]. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 255 A cheat, That lets his false Dice freely run..But never lets a true one stir Without some fingering Trick or Slur. 1820 Rep. Arts, Manufactures, & Agric. 36 338 The key B natural is nearly straight, and rises up at its extremity to form the fingering part in the form of a button. 1883 Contemp. Rev. June 814 Not from any fingering induction of external details. 1940 Ling. Inst. (Univ. Michigan) 42 92 Ser. of 64 books, fingering guides, charts, [etc.]. 1976 A. C. Baines Brass Instruments: Hist. & Devel. vii. 201 This system forms the basis of Caussinus's fingering instructions. 2000 G. Horne Intermediate Acoustic Guitar vii. 95 Some fingering tips for the decorative notes are shown below. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fingeringn.² Brit. /ˈfɪŋɡ(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfɪŋɡərɪŋ/ Forms: 1800s fingis (plural, probably transmission error), 1800s– fingering; Scottish pre-1700 fingarinn, pre-1700 fingarrin, pre-1700 fingarume, pre-1700 fingarun, pre-1700 fingerum, pre-1700 fingrain, pre-1700 fingrin, pre-1700 fingring, pre-1700 fingrome, pre-1700 finȝering, pre-1700 finȝeringe, pre-1700 phingrim, pre-1700 1700s fingrum, pre-1700 1700s–1800s fingram, pre-1700 1700s– fingering, 1700s fingrim, 1700s fingrine, 1700s fingrom, 1800s fing'rin', 1800s fingerin, 1900s fingerin'. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: finger n., finger v., -ing suffix¹, -ing suffix³. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Probably < finger n. or finger v., perhaps on account of an (unidentified) process in the production of the material (perhaps compare finger v. 8) + either -ing suffix¹ or perhaps -ing suffix³. It is possible that sense 2 is the original sense, and that the fabric was woven from such yarn. With sense 2 perhaps compare quot. 1777 at fingered adj.² 1.A derivation < French fin grain , lit. ‘fine grain’ has also been suggested (compare the forms fingrain, fingram at Forms), but it seems more likely that this is a folk etymology (after grogram n.), especially since forms of the type finȝering, fingering are attested from the outset. †1. Originally and chiefly Scottish. A kind of fine woollen cloth; a piece of this. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > stout or durable > serge > types of fingering1611 serge-wale1682 denim1695 sagathy1707 caddis1714 sergette1858 fleur1883 1611 Brechin Test. II. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Ane govne of finȝeringe,..ane gaircull of finȝeringe..Ane finȝering plaid. 1634 Edinb. Test. LVI. f. 362^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at cited word Xxiiij ellis braid fingrum. 1661 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1661/1/338 Phingrim, being a sort of plaiding, ilk hundred ells. 1685 A. Skene Mem. Royall-burghs Scotl. 106 There is no Nation in Europe can serve them at an easier rate, not onely in Plaiding and Fingrams but also in such other Cloaths. 1707 G. Miège Present State Great Brit. ii. ii. 24 Large Flocks of Sheep they have in Scotland produce abundance of Wool, from whence come..Fingrines, Serges [etc.]. 1719 Act 6 Geo. I c. 13 An Act for..preventing Frauds..in manufacturing Serges..and Fingrums. 1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. 105 At Aberdeen, and Countries adjacent, large Quantities of our own coarse tarred Wooll are manufactured into coarse Serges, called Fingrams. 1782 F. Douglas Gen. Descr. E. Coast Scotl. 139 About fifty or sixty years ago, they had a manufacture in this country, called Fingerings, or Serge, a slight woollen stuff, for which there was a great demand. 1864 A. W. Moss & H. C. Sinclair Let. 9 Jan. in A. Johnson Papers (1983) VI. 552 The goods taken were composed principly of silk Dress goods, Boys & Childrens Readymade Clothing, Calicos, Delanos, Fingis [sic] and a general assortment of Dress Trimmings. 2. Originally Scottish (chiefly North American in later use). Fine wool or yarn used esp. to knit socks. Frequently attributive, as fingering weight, fingering wool, fingering yarn, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > woollen > for sewing or knitting > specific Norfolk thread1407 garn1483 crewel1494 caddis1530 worsted yarn1533 worsted1546 fingering1681 German wool1807 wheel-spuna1825 Berlin wool1841 ice wool1876 Berlin1881 eis wool1882 quick-knit1935 bawneen1958 1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem ii. 9 There Fingram Stockins spun on Rocks lyes. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Fingerin, worsted spun of combed wool, on the small wheel. 1875 L. S. Floyer Plain Needlework 10 Fingering Yarn. 1885 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 30 Mar. 332/1 Stocking..knitted with German fingering wool. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 10 May 3/3 Stockings made from the best ‘fingerings’. 1901 T. M. James Longmans' Compl. Course Needlework iii. 300 Nos. 14 or 15 needles and 4-ply Scotch fingering, Welsh yarn, or Alloa yarn would do. 1915 Times 22 Jan. (Ann. Financial Review) 7/2 The unofficial orders for the home knitting of comforts have given the spinners of fingering-wool the busiest months in their history. 1982 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 6 Apr. There's a definite market for the finer yarns like Astra or the four-ply fingering. 2012 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 July a17 The yarn, fingering weight, is shades of sea glass, shimmering blues and greens. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † fingeringn.³ Forms: 1600s–1800s fingerin, 1800s fingering. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: finger n., -ing suffix³. Etymology: < finger n. + -ing suffix³, so called with reference to the spots resembling fingermarks on the fish's side. English regional. Obsolete. A young salmon or trout; a parr; = fingerling n. 2.Apparent later instances probably show errors for fingerling n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > young > parr graveling1587 pinka1641 tecon1653 fingering1686 brandling1754 laspring1760 parr1771 wrack-rider1794 salmon pink1805 fingerling1829 farthing-trout1865 1686 F. Willughby & J. Ray De Hist. Piscium iv. iv. 193 Branlins; nonnullis Fingerins, i.e. Digitales, dicti. 1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling i. ii. 27 On the Sides there are five or six Impressions of such a Form as tho' they had been made with Fingers; hence some give them the Title of Fingerins. ?1806 A. Mackintosh Driffield Angler i. iii. 34 (heading) The Samlet, Fingering-Parr, or Pink-Trout. 1819 A. Rees Cycl. XIV. (at cited word) Fingerin, in Ichthyology, a name given to the Samlet or Salmulus..which is the least of the Trout kind, and supposed by several, without sufficient reason, as Pennant conceives, to be the fry of the salmon. a1823 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XIV. 585/1 In some other parts of England [it is usually called] a fingering, from the resemblance of its spotted streaks to the human fingers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2020). fingeringadj. Brit. /ˈfɪŋɡ(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfɪŋɡərɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: finger v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < finger v. + -ing suffix². With sense 2 compare later finger v. 4a(b). 1. That plays a musical instrument with the fingers; attentive to proper fingering when playing an instrument. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [adjective] > fingering fingering1712 fingered1813 1712 Spectator No. 338. ⁋2 Those fingering Gentlemen should be informed that they ought to suit their Airs to the Place. 2012 D. Liebman & L. Porter What it Is xi. 302 Trane was a disciplined, practiced, fingering kind of guy. †2. Inclined to petty or excessively fastidious inquiry or manipulation; fussy, finicky. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > brisk or active > bustling or fussing > about trifles busy-idle1611 nugiperous1647 fidgeting1672 niffy-naffy1765 fingering1799 fussing1826 fussy1831 fiddle-faddling1834 spoffish1836 spoffy1860 fustling1867 1799 W. Wordsworth Poet's Epit. v Philosopher! a fingering slave. 1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etymol. 217 [He] would arrest the press to alter a comma; yet with all this fingering finicalness, has not left a single well-constructed paragraph in his whole writings! 1868 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 581/1 Actual facts, with which those fingering knaves, the scientific people, have tainted the age. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1450n.²1611n.³1686adj.1712
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