Fingering [verb]
Definition of Fingering:
touch lightly
Synonyms of Fingering:
Sentence/Example of Fingering:
"So that is Jim Poindexter, the bloody villain," muttered the boy between his set teeth, and nervously fingering his revolver.
"Skull ain't broke," replied Texas, fingering the wound as roughly as if it had been in the flesh of a beast.
I fell to fingering these with the same impulse of thoughtlessness that induces people to bite their finger-nails.
While thus engaged I suddenly became aware of the fact that the young fellow was fingering at the worn place on the chair-arm.
Gutmann told me that his master's playing was particularly smooth, and his fingering calculated to attain this result.
Fingering is the mainspring, the determining principle, one might almost say the life and soul, of the pianoforte technique.
These men acted as blind men would act who endeavored to find diamonds by touch among a heap of stones they were fingering.
He leaned against the balustrade, nervously fingering his pipe, and Helen sat down opposite.
When she had finished it, she did not look round, but went on fingering the notes, gliding gradually into another key.
"Mostly," answered Marjorie, fingering the buttons on Leonard's sleeve.