(a) = hermodactyl, n. 1; (b) a fingerpost (rare).

A sign mounted on a post, used to give information or directions, identify a business, etc.; (also) the post supporting such a sign.

= mercury, n. 2.

= guide-post, n.

A statue or image of Mercury. Also: spec. = Herma, n.; (hence gen.) a signpost. Now historical and rare.

= sense 2.

= mercury, n. 2.

A guide post. Also figurative. Now rare.

A post with a direction-board affixed, set up for the guidance of travellers, e.g. at the fork of a road; a finger-post. Also transferred and figur…

Any object, figure, or mark of the same shape as the instrument of crucifixion, i.e. of two bars or lines crossing each other, used as a sign…

literal. A signpost at a crossroads or junction that has arms, sometimes terminating in a point or shaped to resemble a finger, projecting in the…

a stone set up by the wayside to direct travellers.

= fingerpost, n. 1b.

Chiefly British regional. A signpost for travellers in the shape of a pointing finger. Now rare.

A sign or board, typically mounted on a post and often taking the form of an elongated rectangle terminating in a point or finger-like shape, that…

a finger-post at the branching of a road, a directing post.

a board erected at a fork in a road, for the direction of travellers.

A board displaying a name, image, or some other inscription, used to give information or directions, identify a business, etc. Also figurative.

= fingerpost, n. 1b; cf. handpost n. at hand, n. compounds 6.

a finger-post on a road.