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Saturday, December 10, 2011

Fidicinales

With anatomists, the muscles of the fingers called lumbricales, from the use they are put to by musicians in playing some instruments.
- Nathaniel Bailey's Etymological English Dictionary, 1749

From fidicen, a harper.
- Richard Hoblyn's Medical Dictionary, 1859

Fidicinal, of or pertaining to a player on stringed instruments.
- Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1901

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