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. crooketh like a bow." Phaer. Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards. Camden.

The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom. The custom of making the sign of the cross with the hand or finger, as a means of conferr…

To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread. [Written also crum.]

A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger.

mer"ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. [Written also dactyle.]

Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean.

The inscription of the engraver's name on a finger ring or gem.

That branch of archæology which has to do with finger rings.

Divination by means of finger rings.

An inflammatory affection of the fingers. Gross.

The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.

The art of numbering or counting by the fingers.

A pack or set of playing cards. The king was slyly fingered from the deck. Shak.

he wheel bug. [U.S.] -- Devil's darning-needle. (Zoöl.) See under Darn, v. t. -- Devil's fingers, Devil's hand (Zoöl.), the common British starfish (Asterias rubens); -- also applied to a sponge with stout branches. [Prov. Eng., Irish & Scot.] -- Devil's riding-horse (Zoöl.), the American mantis (Mantis Carolina). --…

One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe. The ruminants have the "cloven foot," i. e., two hoofed digits on each foot. Owen.

Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.

To point out as with the finger. [R.] Robinson (Eudoxa).

Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation. -- Dig"i*tate*ly, adv.

A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.

Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root.