See also:

• PALMISTRY (from " palmist," one who studies the palm, and the Teutonic affix ry signifying " art "; also called CHIROMANCY, from xeip, the hand, and ,uavreia, divination)

PALMISTRY (from " palmist," one who studies the See also:

• PALM (Lat. palma, Gr. iraX6.jn )
• PALM, JOHANN PHILIPP (1768-1806)

palm, and the See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic affix ry signifying " See also:

• ART

art "; also called See also:

• CHIROMANCY (from Gr. Xeip, hand, and yavreia, divination)

CHIROMANCY, from xeip, the See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, and ,uavreia, See also:

• DIVINATION
• DIVINATION, OMEN, ASTROLOGY

divination)  . The See also:

• DESIRE

desire to learn what the future has in See also:

• STORE (from O. Fr. estor or estoire, Late Lat. staurum or instaurum, stock, provisions, supply, from the late use of instaurare, to provide, properly to construct, renew, restore)

store is nearly as old as the sense of responsibility in mankind, and has been the See also:

• PARENT, SIMON NAPOLEON (1855– )

parent of many empirical systems of See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune-telling, which profess to afford See also:

• POSITIVE (or PORTABLE) ORGAN

positive knowledge whereby the affairs of See also:

• LIFE

life may be regulated, and the dangers of failure foretold . Most of these systems come into the See also:

• CATEGORY (Gr. Karrlyopia, " accusation ")

category of occult pursuits, as they are the interpretations of phenomena on the ground of fanciful presumptions, by an See also:

• APPEAL

appeal to unreal or at least unverifiable influences and relations . One of the See also:

• OLDEST

oldest of this large See also:

• FAMILY

family of predictive systems is that of See also:

• PALMISTRY, (from " palmist," one who studies the palm, and the Teutonic affix ry signifying " art "; also called CHIROMANCY, from xeip, the hand, and ,uavreia, divination)

palmistry, whereby the various irregulaFities and flexion-folds of the skin of the See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand are interpreted as being associated with See also:

• MENTAL

mental or moral dispositions and See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers, as well as with the current of future events in the life of the individual . How far back in prehistoric times this See also:

• SYSTEM

system has been practised it is impossible to say, but in See also:

• CHINA

China it is said to have existed 3000 years before See also:

• CHRIST (Gr. X pLQTOS, Anointed)
• CHRIST, WILHELM VON (1831-1906)

Christ,' and in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek literature it is treated even in the most See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient writings as well-known belief . See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas See also:

• BLACKWELL, THOMAS (1701-1757)

Blackwell' has collected some Homeric references: a See also:

• WORK

work by See also:

• MELAMPUS

Melampus of See also:

• ALEXANDRIA
• ALEXANDRIA (Arab. Iskenderia)

Alexandria is extant in several versions . Polemon, See also:

• ARISTOTLE
• ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

Aristotle and Adamantius may also be named as having dealt with the subject; as also have the medical writers of See also:

• GREECE

Greece and See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome—See also:

• HIPPOCRATES

Hippocrates, See also:

• GALEN (or GALENUS), CLAUDIUS
• GALEN, CHRISTOPH BERNHARD, FREIHERR VON (16o6-1678)

Galen and See also:

• PAULUS
• PAULUS (older form PAur.Lus), LUCIUS AEMILIUS
• PAULUS, HEINRICH

Paulus See also:

• AEGINETA, PAULUS

Aegineta, and in later times the Arabian commentators on these authors . From references which can be gathered from patristic writings it is abundantly evident that the belief in the mystical meaning of marks on the " See also:

• ORGAN

organ of See also:

• ORGANS

organs " was a See also:

• PART

part of the popular See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy of their times . - After the invention of See also:

• PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing a very considerable See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass of literature concerning this subject was produced during the 16th and 17th centuries . See also:

• PRAETORIUS, MICHAEL (1571_1621)

Praetorius, in his Ludicrum chiromanticum (See also:

• JENA

Jena, 1661) 3 has collected the titles of 77 . Other See also:

• WORKS

works are quoted by Fulieborn and See also:

• HORST

Horst, and by writers on the See also:

• HISTORY

history of philosophy and magic; altogether about 98 books on the subject published before 1700 are at See also:

• PRESENT

present accessible . There is not very much variety among these See also:

• TREATISES

treatises, one of the earliest, valuable on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of its rarity, is the See also:

• BLOCK
• BLOCK (from the Fr. bloc, and possibly connected with an Old Ger. Block, obstruction, cf. " baulk ")
• BLOCK, MAURICE (1816–19or)

block-See also:

• BOOK

book by Hartlieb, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Kunst Ciromantia,4 published at See also:

• AUGSBURG
• AUGSBURG, CONFESSION OF
• AUGSBURG, WAR OF THE LEAGUE OF

Augsburg about 1470 (probably, but it bears no imprint of See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place or date) .

In this there are See also:

• COLOSSAL

colossal figures of hands, each of which has its regions marked out by See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions . Few of these works are of sufficient See also:

• INTEREST

interest to require mention . 1 See also:

• GILES (GIL, GILLES), ST

Giles, in Contemporary See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review (1905) . 2 Proofs of the Inquiry into the Life and Writings of See also:

• HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer, p . 330 (See also:

• LONDON

London, 1736) . ' This book is worthy of See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note on account of the See also:

• QUAINT (O. Fr. cointe, from Lat. cognitus, known, probably influenced by association with Lat. corn plus, neat)

quaint and sarcastic See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour of its numerous See also:

• ACROSTIC (Gr. aKpos, at the end, and arixos, line or verse)

acrostic verses . 4 There is a copy in the See also:

• RYLANDS, JOHN (18o1-1888)

Rylands Library, See also:

• MANCHESTER
• MANCHESTER (popularly Manchester-by-the-Sea)
• MANCHESTER, EARLS AND DUKES OF

Manchester . See also See also:

• DIBDIN, CHARLES (1745—1814)
• DIBDIN, THOMAS FROGNALL (1776—1847)
• DIBDIN, THOMAS JOHN (1771–1841)

Dibdin's See also:

• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL

Bibliographical Decameron (1817), i . 143 . The best are those by Pompeius,See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• FLUDD, or FLUD, ROBERT [ROBERTUS DE FLUCTIBUS] (1574-1637)

Fludd, See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John de Indagine, Taisnierus, Baptista dalla Porta, S . See also:

• CARDAN [Ital. CARDANOI, GIROLAMO [GERONYMO or HIERONIMO] (1501-1576)

Cardan, Goclenius, Codes, Frolich, Summer, Rothmann, Ingebert, See also:

• POMPONIUS, LUCIUS

Pomponius Gauricus, and Tricassus Mantuanus . There are also See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew works, of which one by Gedaliah is extant .

An See also:

• INDIAN

Indian literature is also said to exist . Some of these authors See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to See also:

• SEPARATE

separate the physiognomical part of the subject (Chirognomia) from the astrological (Chiromantia); see especially Caspar Schott in Magia naturalis universalis, See also:

• BAMBERG

Bamberg, 1677 . Since the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, in spite of the enactments of See also:

• LAWS

laws in See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain and elsewhere against the practice, there has been a recrudescence of belief in palmistry, and a new literature has grown up differing little in essence from the older . The more important books of this See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series are K . G . See also:

• CARUS, KARL GUSTAV (1789–1869)
• CARUS, MARCUS AURELIUS

Carus, Uber Grund u . Bedeutung der verschiedenen Formen der Hand, 1846; Landsberg, Die Handteller (See also:

• POSEN
• POSEN (Polish Poznan)

Posen,1861); Adolf Desbarolles, See also:

• LES

Les Mysteres de la See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main (1859); C . S . D'Arpentigny, Chirognomie, la See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science de la main (1865), of which an See also:

• ENGLISH

English version has been published by See also:

• HERON (Fr. heron; Ital. aghirone, airone; Lat. ardea; Gr. ipw&bs: A.-S. hragra; Icelandic, hegre; Swed. hager; Dan. heire; Ger. Heiger, Reiher, Heergans; Dutch, reiger)

Heron See also:

• ALLEN, BOG OF
• ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
• ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
• ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
• ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
• ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
• ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
• ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)

Allen in 1886; G . Z . Gessmann, Katechismus der Handlesekunst (See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, 1889); Czyriszi, Die Deutung der Handlinien (See also:

• DRESDEN

Dresden, 1893); R . Beamish, The Psychonomy of the Hand (1865); See also:

• FRITH (or FRYTH), JOHN (c. 1503-1533)
• FRITH, WILLIAM POWELL (1818-19og)

Frith and Allen, The Science of Palmistry (1883); See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

Cotton, Palmistry and its See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical uses (189o) .

Some of the older writers appealed to Scripture as supporting their systems, especially the texts Exod. xiii . 16; See also:

• JOB

Job See also:

• XXXVII

xxxvii . 7; and Prov . 16 . A considerable amount of literature See also:

• PRO

pro and See also:

• CON

con was devoted to this controversy in the 17th and 18th centuries . At the present See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day palmistry is practised in nearly all parts of China . The criteria of See also:

• JUDGMENT

judgment used there are referred to in the See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article by See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

Professor H . A . Giles, already quoted . It is also extensively practised in See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, especially by one See also:

• CASTE (through the Fr. from Span. and Port. casta, lineage, Lat. cast us, pure)

caste of Brahmins, the Joshi . In See also:

• SYRIA

Syria and See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt the palmist can be seen plying his See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade at the cafes; and among the See also:

• ARABS

Arabs there are chiromantists who are consulted as to the probable success of enterprises . It is probably from their See also:

• ORIGINAL

original Indian See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home that the traditional dukkeripen (fortune-telling) of the See also:

• GIPSIES, or GYPSIES

gipsies has been derived .

This system of See also:

• DIVINATION
• DIVINATION, OMEN, ASTROLOGY

divination has the See also:

• CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm of simplicity and definiteness, as an application of the " See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine of signatures " which formed so extensive an See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element in the occult writings of the past six centuries . In the course of ages every detail has been brought under a formal set of rules, which only need See also:

• MECHANICAL

mechanical application . There have been in past times considerable divergences in the practice, but at present there is a fairly See also:

• UNIFORM

uniform system in See also:

• VOGUE, EUGENE MELCHIOR, COMTE DE (1848- )

vogue . One school See also:

• LAYS

lays See also:

• SPECIAL

special stress on the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general shape and outline of the hand . Corvaeus enumerates 70 varieties, See also:

• PAMPHILUS
• PAMPHILUS (1st century A.D.)

Pamphilus cuts them down to 6, John de Indagine to 27, and Tricassus Mantuanus raises them to 80 . The characters of softness or hardness, dryness or moisture, &c., are taken account of in these classifications . The lines of See also:

• CARDINAL (Lat. cardinalis)

cardinal importance are (I) the rasceta or See also:

• CROSS

cross See also:

• SULCI

sulci, which isolate the hand from the forearm at the See also:

• WRIST

wrist, and which are the flexion folds between the looser forearm skin and that tied down to the See also:

• FASCIA (Latin for a bandage or fillet)

fascia above the level of the anterior See also:

• ANNULAR, ANNULATE

annular See also:

• LIGAMENT (Lat. ligamentum, from ligare, to bind)

ligament . (2) The See also:

• LINE

line which isolates the See also:

• BALL (in Mid. Eng. bal; the word is probably cognate with " bale," Teutonic in origin, cf. also Lat. falls, and Gr. 7raXXa)
• BALL, JOHN (1585-1640)
• BALL, JOHN (1818-1889)
• BALL, JOHN (d. 1381)
• BALL, SIR ALEXANDER JOHN, BART
• BALL, THOMAS (1819- )

ball of the thumb, where the skin ceases to be tied to the front of the palmar fascia, is called the line of life . (3) A line starting above the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the second metacarpal See also:

• BONE (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, in many of which it is confined to the shank of the leg, as in the German Bein)
• BONE, HENRY (1755-1834)

bone and See also:

• CROSSING

crossing the hand to the middle of its ulnar border is the line of the head . (4) The transverse line below this which passes from the ulnar border a little above the level of the head of the fifth metacarpal and ends somewhere about the See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root of the See also:

• INDEX

index See also:

• FINGER

finger is the line of the See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

heart . (5) The See also:

• VERTICAL (from Lat. vertex, highest point)

vertical line descending from the middle of the wrist to end about the See also:

• BASE

base of the middle finger is the line of fortune . (6) The oblique line which begins at the wrist end of the line of life and descends towards the ulnar end of the line of the head is the line of the See also:

• LIVER (O. Eng. lifer; cf. cognate forms, Dutch lever, Ger. Leber, Swed. lefver, &c.; the O. H. Ger. forms are libara, lipora, &c.; the Teut. word has been connected with Gr. i'prap and Lat. jecur)

liver .

These lines isolate certain swellings or monticuli, the largest of which is (I) the ball of the thumb, called the See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain of See also:

• VENUS

Venus; (2) that at the base of the index finger is the mountain of See also:

• JUPITER

Jupiter; (3) at the root of the middle finger is the mountain of See also:

• SATURN
• SATURN [SATURNUS]

Saturn, while those at the bases of See also:

• RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra, wheel, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f

ring and little finger arerespectively the mountains of the (4) See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

Sun and (5) of See also:

• MERCURY
• MERCURY (MERCU1uus)
• MERCURY (symbol Hg, atomic weight = 2oo)

Mercury . Above the mountain of Mercury, and between the lines of head and heart is (6) the mountain of See also:

• MARS
• MARS (MAYORS, MARMAR, MARSPITER GA MASPITER)
• MARS, MLLE [ANNE FRANCOISE HYPPOLYTE BOUTET] (1779-1847)

Mars, and above the line of the heart is (7) the mountain of the See also:

• MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
• MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)

Moon . The relative sizes of these mountains have assigned to them their definite correlations with characters: the 1st with charity, love, libertinage; the 2nd with religiosity, ambition, love of See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour, See also:

• PRIDE, THOMAS (d. 1658)

pride, superstition; the 3rd with See also:

• WISDOM, BOOK OF, or WISDOM OF SOLOMON (Sept. Io4ia IaXwµwvos; Lat. Vulg. Liber sapientiae)

wisdom, See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good fortune, prudence, or when deficient improvidence, See also:

• IGNORANCE (Lat. ignorantia, from ignorare, not to know); want of knowledge, a state of mind which in law has important consequences. A well-known legal maxim runs: ignorantia juris non excusat ("ignorance of the law does not excuse")

ignorance, failure; the 4th when large makes for success, celebrity, intelligence, audacity, when small meanness or love of obscurity; the 5th indicates love of know-ledge, See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry, aptitude for See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce, and in its extreme forms on the one hand love of gain and dishonesty, on the other slackness and laziness . The 6th is related to degrees of courage, See also:

• RESOLUTION

resolution, rashness or timidity; the 7th indicates sensitiveness, morality, good conduct, or immorality, overbearing See also:

• TEMPER (from Lat. temperare, to mingle or compound in due proportion, to qualify, rule, regulate, to be moderate, formed from tempos, time, fit or due season)

temper and self-will . The swellings on the palmar faces of the phalanges of the several fingers are also indicative, the 1st and 2nd of the thumb respectively, of the logical See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty and of the will; the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of the index finger, of See also:

• MATERIALISM (from Lat. materia, matter)

materialism, See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law and See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order, See also:

• IDEALISM (from Gr. i5Ea, archetype or model, through been urged of the truth of its point of view is the persistency Fr. idealisme)

idealism; those of the middle finger, humanity, system, intelligence; of the ring finger, truth, See also:

• ECONOMY

economy, See also:

• ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy; and of the little finger, goodness, prudence, reflectiveness . Over and above these there are other marks, crosses, triangles, &c., of which more than a See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred have been described and figured by different author's, each with its See also:

• INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation; and in addition the back of the hand has its ridges . The See also:

• CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese combine podoscopy with See also:

• CHIROMANCY (from Gr. Xeip, hand, and yavreia, divination)

chiromancy . To the anatomist the roughnesses of the See also:

• PALM (Lat. palma, Gr. iraX6.jn )
• PALM, JOHANN PHILIPP (1768-1806)

palm are of consider-able interest . The folds are so disposed that the thick skin shall be capable of bending in grasping, while at the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time it requires to be tightly See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound down to the See also:

• SKELETON

skeleton of the hand, else the slipping of the skin would See also:

• LEAD
• LEAD (pronounced iced)

lead to insecurity of prehension, as the quilting or buttoning down of the covers of See also:

• FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture by upholsterers keeps them from slipping . For this purpose the skin is tied by connecting See also:

• FIBRES
• FIBRES (or FIBERS, in American spelling; from Lat. fibra, apparently connected either with filum, thread, or findere, to split)

fibres of See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white fibrillar See also:

• TISSUE (Fr. tissu, tissue, participle of tisser, Lat. texere, to weave)

tissue to the deep layer of the dermis along the lateral and See also:

• LOWER

lower edges of the palmar fascia and to the sheaths of the flexor tendons . The folds, therefore, which are disposed for the purpose of making the grasp secure, vary with the relative lengths of the metacarpal bones, with the mutual relations of the sheaths of the tendons, and the edge of the palmar fascia, somewhat also with the insertion of the palmaris brevis muscle . The sulci are emphasized because the subcutaneous See also:

• FAT (O.E. fdett; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vet, Ger. Fett, &c., and may be ultimately related to Greek Irian, and =apos, and Sanskrit pivan)

fat, which is copious in order to See also:

• PAD

pad the skin for the purpose of firmness of holding, being restricted to the intervals between the lines along which the skin is tied down, makes these intervals project, and these are the monticuli .

The swelling of the mountain of Venus is simply the indication of the See also:

• SIZE

size of the muscles of the ball of the thumb, and can be increased by their exercise . Similarly the hypothenar muscles for the little finger underlie the three ulnar marginal mountains, the sizes of which depend on their development and on the prominence of the pisiform bone . That these purely mechanical arrangements have any psychic, occult or predictive meaning is a fantastic See also:

• IMAGINATION

imagination, which seems to have a See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar attraction for certain types of mind, and as there can be no fundamental See also:

• HYPOTHESIS (from Gr. inrorcOivat, to put under; cf. Lat. suppositio, from sub-ponere)

hypothesis of correlation, its discussion does not See also:

• LIE, JONAS LAURITZ EDEMIL (1833—1908)
• LIE, MARIUS SOPHUS (1842–1899)

lie within the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason . (A .