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1. n. The figure or letter which shows the power or root of a quantity; the exponent.
2. n. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
3. n. That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; — called also fist.
4. n. A table for facilitating reference to topics, names, and the like, in a book; — usually alphabetical in arrangement, and printed at the end of the volume.
5. n. A prologue indicating what follows.
6. n. The second digit, that next pollex, in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.