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Thread #142090 Message #3272999
Posted By: Roger the Skiffler
13-Dec-11 - 05:36 AM
Thread Name: BS: Increase your word power
Subject: BS: Increase your word power
..as they used to say in the Reader's Disgust.
FIDICINALES: [what]anatomists [call] the muscles of the fingers called lumbricales, from the use they are put to by musicians in playing some instruments. -Nathanial Bailey's Etymological English Dictionary, 1749.
From fidicen, a harper -Richard Hoblyn's Medical Dictionary, 1859,
Fidicinal, of or pertaining to a player on stringed instruments. -Sir James Murray's New English Disctionary, 1901.
RtS (No, don't thank me, consider it my Xmas gift to you all [cheapskate!])