- onychomancy
- Divination using fingernails
Grandiloquent dictionary. 2006.
onychomancy
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Onychomancy — Onychomancy: fingernails analysis Onychomancy or variously onuchomancy, onychomantia, onycomancy, onymancy (from Greek onychos, fingernail , and manteia, fortune telling ) is an ancient form of divination using fingernails. It consists of… … Wikipedia
Onychomancy — On y*cho*man cy, n. [Gr. ?, ?, a finger nail + mancy: cf. F. onychomancie.] Divination by the nails. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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