Definitions
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- n. a line on the palm of the hand, curving about the base of the thumb, supposed to indicate, by its form or position, the length of a person's life.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. a line on the inside of the hand, curving about the base of the thumb, supposed to indicate, by its form or position, the length of a person's life.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live
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Examples
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“Though I am a schoolmaster's son, I confess that school-teaching or school-inspecting is not the line of life I should naturally have chosen.
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You must prepare Banti's mother, as it is a peace, for some other line of life than the navy.
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