*digitate*

v. t. [ LL. digitatus, p. p. of digitare, fr. L. digitus. See Digit. ] To point out as with the finger. [ R. ] Robinson (Eudoxa).

{ , a. [ L. digitatus having fingers. ] (Bot.) 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. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. impar unequal + digitus finger. ] (Anat.) Having an odd number of fingers or toes, either one, three, or five, as in the horse, tapir, rhinoceros, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Pref. in- in + L. digitus finger. ] To communicate ideas by the fingers; to show or compute by the fingers. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Indigitated p. pr. & vb. n. Indigitating ] To point out with the finger; to indicate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The depressing this finger, . . . in the right hand indigitates six hundred. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Pref. inter- + L. digitus finger. ] To interlock, as the fingers of two hands that are joined; to be interwoven; to commingle. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To interweave. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Multi- + digitate. ] Having many fingers, or fingerlike processes. [ 1913 Webster ]