English Dictionary

palmistry

noun

Telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand. / (countable) A book on palmistry; a system of palmistry. / (obsolete, rare) A dexterous use or trick of the hand.

She went to a palmistry reading to learn about her future.

意味（1）

Telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand.

Chiromantie is a coniecturyng by beholdyng the lynes, or wryncles of the handes called commonly Palmistry.

意味（2）

(countable) A book on palmistry; a system of palmistry.

No living palmistries can spell

No living palmistries can spell The bird-runes on the stretched silk of her hand

意味（3）

(obsolete, rare) A dexterous use or trick of the hand.

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.