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Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis. Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run To pluck the speckled foxgloves from their stem. W. Bro…

The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves.

The first, or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds.

lline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin.

f 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. "He teaches boys the hornbook." Shak.

The second digit, that next pollex, in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger.

One who practices sleight of hand; a prestidigitator.

The third or middle finger; the third digit, or that which corresponds to it.

The little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes.

The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia.

A combining form signifying equal; as, paridigitate, paripinnate.

Having five digits to the hand or foot.

One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.

raduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys. Dumb piano. See Digitorium. -- Grand piano. See under Grand. -- Square piano, one with a horizontal frame and an oblong case. -- Upright piano, one with an upright frame and vertical wires.

ame, esp. when marked with the ace, king, queen, jack, ten, and nine instead of the usual digits.

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.

The possession of more that the normal number of digits.

An extra first digit, or rudiment of a digit, on the preaxial side of the pollex.

Legerdemain; prestidigitation. [Obs.]

A juggler; prestidigitator. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.