palmistry

Các nghĩa

1. thuật xem chỉ tay

   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.

   He must (at least) hold up his hand, By twelve Free-holders to be scan’d, Who by their skill in Palmistry, Will quickly read his Destiny;

   I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell.

2. sách về thuật xem chỉ tay; hệ thống thuật xem chỉ tay

   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

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• palmistries plural