01 n. A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ⌣ ⌣), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tëgmĭnĕ, E. …
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A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ⌣ ⌣), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tëgmĭnĕ, E. mer"ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger.(Pros.)
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A finger or toe; a digit.(Zool.)