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• n  the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument
• n  touching something with the fingers
• v  feel or handle with the fingers
• v  examine by touch
• v  search for on the computer
• v  indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments

• On a crisp day in January 1950, Alger and Priscilla Hiss sat in a Manhattan courtroom, he pressing his lips in a tight smile, she fingering her handbag.
• Eluding rebel kidnapers, and nervously fingering a Sterling submachine gun, the Sultan escaped to a police station.
• Silent and uncommunicative, she lay on her hospital bed fondling a shiny, new doll, fingering with reverence a holy picture pinned on her pillow.

• finger
• thumb
• feel

News & Articles

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• LIRR scammer to flip on doc
  A Long Island fire official who had been scamming $3,000 a month in disability benefits through the LIRR “gravy train” scheme is hoping he has a prescription for avoiding prison — by fingering the doctor who allegedly signed off on his bogus ailments.Robert Ellensohn, 59, pleaded guilty in federal...
  July 4, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Warwick McKibbin in Sydney Morning Herald
  I don't know whether Ken was fingering me but there weren't too many other people out there arguing against an ETS,he said. "I have enormous respect for Ken Henry but he can't believe that you should have consensus because it is better to...
• Keri Russell in Christian Science Monitor
  Faking a cello is not like faking a guitar,Russell explains. "First of all, there are two very different hands. One is the fingering hand that's all up and down, and over and across. It would look really silly when your fingering hand is...
• Bertie Ahern in Irish Echo
  We are so near, but I fear some think there is a tactical advantage to be gained by long-fingering this,Bertie Ahern said. "They are wrong, really wrong, and should reflect very closely on where we have moved and what's on offer."