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A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.
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v. t.
To finger; as, to digitize a pen.
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The first, or preaxial, digit of the fore limb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; the thumb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the bastard wing.
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The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer.
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Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root.
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Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation.
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The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex.
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One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.
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Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the "French extract," the "German extract," etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties.
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An extra first digit, or rudiment of a digit, on the preaxial side of the pollex.
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A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin.
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Having, or characterized by, four digits to the foot or hand.
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One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.
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Having five digits to the hand or foot.
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Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.
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Alt. of Digitated
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The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.
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The possession of more that the normal number of digits.
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The third or middle finger; the third digit, or that which corresponds to it.
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One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal.
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