Also called chiromancy, palm reading reading has a long history extending back to ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome.    From LearnThat.org. 

If, however, the observation regards the dispositions, that occur to the eye, of figures in certain bodies, there will be another species of divination: for the divination that is taken from observing the lines of the hand is called "chiromancy," i.e. divination of the hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

Interested in chiromancy? she said, noting Clarys gaze.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mortal Instruments: Book One: City of Bones] Reference

Balzac was interested in the occult sciences -- in chiromancy and cartomancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

He wrote extensively on philosophy, mathematics, and medicine, and also on chiromancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

Aristotle, I confess, in his acute and singular book of physiognomy, hath made no mention of chiromancy: 80 yet I believe the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religio Medici] Reference

Now that chiromancy has become so fashionable as to be a part of a great many entertainments, it is very desirable that the hands should present an attractive appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

Other signs there are taken from physiognomy, metoposcopy, chiromancy, which because Joh. de Indagine, and Rotman, the landgrave of Hesse his mathematician, not long since in his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

You know how by the arts of astrology, geomancy, chiromancy, metopomancy, and others of a like stuff and nature, he foretelleth all things to come; let us talk a little, and confer with him about your business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

On their right was the tent of the Master of the Mountain, that world-famous fortune-teller by crystals and chiromancy; a rich purple tent, all over which were traced, in black and gold, the sprawling outlines of Asiatic gods waving any number of arms like octopods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

EVERYBODY has heard of the Cave of St. Cyprian at Salamanca, where in old times judicial astronomy, necromancy, chiromancy, and other dark and damnable arts were secretly taught by an ancient sacristan; or, as some will have it, by the devil himself, in that disguise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alhambra] Reference

At one time, as a young woman in Brooklyn, she had been a serious student of chiromancy, but over the years, like those literary critics who are forced to read so many books that they begin to read hurriedly, superficially and with buried resentment, she had become disengaged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]

Their women were fortune-tellers, especially by chiromancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gypsies] Reference

This decree of chiromancy frightened considerably both Bertha and the maid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Droll Stories — Volume 3] Reference

Elsie was cross at some of the things she said, for she firmly believes in chiromancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cicely and Other Stories] Reference

The clock said, Five minutes: a secret chiromancy in addition indicating on its face the word Fool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

I have brought the party hither, that you may use palmistry, or chiromancy if such is your pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quentin Durward] Reference

For example, chiromancy, chirognomy, chirosophy, and palmistry are all words to describe the same mantic system.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2] Reference

He addicted himself to astrology, chemistry, and the still more frivolous sciences of chiromancy and physiognomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Necromancers] Reference

Physiognomy, chiromancy, and other fantastic arts of prediction afforded each its mystical assistance and guidance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft] Reference

The observation was new to him, and he seemed to be interested in it, as he always was in anything like chiromancy or metoscopy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs] Reference

You know how by the arts of astrology, geomancy, chiromancy, metopomancy, and others of a like stuff and nature, he foretelleth all things to come; let us talk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference

Craniology, or phrenology, proceeds exactly in the same train, as chiromancy, or any of those pretended sciences which are built merely on assumption or conjecture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference

Certainly our ancient enthusiasts record can be learned and used systematically, exactly as is the case with such excellent and approved systems of chiromancy as Mr. Heron-Allen's and others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note] Reference

+ chiromancy, or palmistry, divination by the lines of the hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

A secret chiromancy in addition indicating on its face the word Fool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

"Under necromancy," says Mr. Forbes, "are comprehended chiromancy, predictions, and responses by the sieve and the shear, and all other hellish arts of divination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

However, it’s also widely understood that good therapists do pretty well no matter what theory they operate under, even including astrology, numerology, and chiromancy palmistry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jung and Easily Freudened] Reference

Sabellicus, a second Faustus, the spring and centre of necromantic art, an astrologer, a magician, consummate in chiromancy, and in agromancy, pyromancy and hydromancy inferior to none that ever lived. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Necromancers] Reference

253 and chiromancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The lay of the last minstrel, a poem. With Ballads and lyrical pieces] Reference

Primary, as stars, proved by aphorisms, signs from physiognomy, metoposcopy, chiromancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Works, too, were there, by writers less renowned, on astrology, geomancy, chiromancy, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference

Here a Sacristan once taught magic, judicial astrology, geomancy, hydromancy, pyromancy, acromancy, chiromancy, necromancy, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alhambra] Reference