palmistry

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɑːmɪstɹi/|/ˈpɑːməstɹi/    美 /ˈpɑ(l)məstɹi/|/ˈpɔ(l)məstɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand. uncountable,usually
    — Chiromantie is a coniecturyng by beholdyng the lynes, or wryncles of the handes called commonly Palmistry.
  2. A book on palmistry; a system of palmistry. countable,usually
    — No living palmistries can spell The bird-runes on the stretched silk of her hand
  3. A dexterous use or trick of the hand. obsolete,rare,uncountable,usually
    — 1711, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volume 2, No. 130, 30 July, 1711, London: J. and R. Tonson, 12th edition, 1739, p. 182, In the Height of his Good-humour, meeting a common Beggar upon the Road who was no Conjuror, as he went to relieve him he found his Pocket was pick’d: That being a Kind of Palmistry at which this Race of Vermin are very dextrous.

词形变化

palmistries plural

词汇关系

相关词
palmist palmister

词源

From Middle English palmestrie. Equivalent to palm + -ist + -ry.
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