onychomancy

English

Etymology

onycho- +‎ -mancy

Noun

onychomancy (uncountable)

1. An ancient form of divination based on the reflections of sunlight on a boy's fingernails.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “onychomancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)