Bible Dictionaries
Muscle Reading

Webster's Dictionary

The art of making discriminations between objects of choice, of discovering the whereabouts of hidden objects, etc., by inference from the involuntary movements of one whose hand the reader holds or with whom he is otherwise in muscular contact.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Muscle Reading'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/muscle-reading.html. 1828.