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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.

The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.

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

rs 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.

Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade.

Parted like the fingers.

To finger; as, to digitize a pen. [R.] Sir T. Browne. computers to convert (information, a signal, an image) into a form expressible in binary notation

A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.

A little finger or toe, or something resembling one.

Having two fingers or fingerlike projections.

Having an odd number of fingers or toes, either one, three, or five, as in the horse, tapir, rhinoceros, etc.

ith the finger; to indicate. [Obs.] The depressing this finger, . . . in the right hand indigitate six hundred. Sir T. Browne.

The act of pointing out as with the finger; indication. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Between the fingers or toes; as, interdigital space.

To interweave. [R.]

The state of interdigitating; interdigital space. Owen.

Having many fingers, or fingerlike processes.