Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mark, especially a soil or stain, made by a finger.
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Examples
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The boys are brawling on the front lawn and coming back down to the basement with finger-mark welts on their necks and bloody, rubbery scratches on their chests.
Realism in Fiction 2008
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Why, some of the work that I have by me now has been in my possession for years and years, and there isn't a finger-mark on it.
Jerome K. Jerome on Work Victoria Janssen 2009
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Why, some of the work that I have by me now has been in my possession for years and years, and there isn't a finger-mark on it.
Archive 2009-04-01 Victoria Janssen 2009
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The index would be classified primarily by some unchanging physical characteristic, such as we are told the thumb-mark and finger-mark afford, and to these would be added any other physical traits that were of material value.
A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006
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That same afternoon I took it out of my locker – I know for certain it was the same bit, for I made a finger-mark on it – and no single trace of writing of any kind was there on it.
A School Story by M. R. James | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004
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A greasy finger-mark is sufficient to stop the paint from sticking to the wire.
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A greasy finger-mark is sufficient to stop the paint from sticking to the wire.
The Aeroplane Speaks 1919
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A greasy finger-mark is sufficient to stop the paint from sticking to the wire.
The Aeroplane Speaks 1917
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She moved like a kind of primitive Una through the virtuous rout, and never got a finger-mark on her freshness.
The Long Run 1912
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But for the life of me I can't find a mark on the box, not a finger-mark.
The Silent Bullet 1908
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