Meaning of fingerwise | Babel Free

Definitions

In the manner of fingers from a hand; spreading out in several narrow parts.

not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“In this way alone too, it seems to me, can one gain⟳ a clear and consistent idea of the valley itself as an organic whole, with the various lateral glens which open⟳ out fingerwise on every side of it as its component members.”

“The valleys make⟳ natural and not ill-graded highways from the prairie to the Wisconsin River, while the ranges of bluffs separating them appear⟳ like⟳ promontories running out fingerwise from the main plateau[…]”

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