cheiro-

American  

1. variant of chiro-.

   cheiromancy.

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cheiro- British  

combining form

1. a variant spelling of chiro-

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Usage

What does cheiro- mean? Cheiro- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “hand.” It is often used in medical and scientific terms.Cheiro- comes from the Greek cheír, meaning “hand.” Bats (the winged mammals) are sometimes called chiropters, a name that literally means “hand-winged,” because their wing membranes are supported by the extended digits of the forelimbs. And chiromancy, another word for palmistry, is the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand; it literally means “hand divination.”Cheiro- is a variant of chiro-, as in chiropractor.Want to know more? Read our Words That Use chiro- and Words That Use chir- articles.

Example Sentences

I even made up a category called Odd Books, used to justify eccentric purchases such as Sir Robert Baden-Powell's Pig-Sticking or Hog-Hunting, Bombadier Billy Wells's Physical Energy, Cheiro's Guide to the Hand and Tap-Dancing Made Easy by "Isolde".

From The Guardian

But enough of these follies: ‘Necro-, pyro-, geo-, hydro-, cheiro-, coscinomancy, With other vain and superstitious sciences.’

From Project Gutenberg

Cheiro, when he read my palm, said he never before had seen a hand which had less of a line of luck than mine.

From Project Gutenberg

I make no pretence of understanding palmistry, but I saw in her hand a queer little mark that Cheiro had explained to us from a chart.

From Project Gutenberg

We had just seen Cheiro in London, and as he had amiably explained a good many of our lines to us, I was speaking of this when the old Duchesse de Z. thrust her little wrinkled paw loaded down with jewels across the plate of her neighbour and said: "Mademoiselle, can you see anything in the lines of my hand?"

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