- 1. n. A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger. Source: opted
- 2. n. A finger or toe; a digit. Source: opted
- 3. n. The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean. Source: opted
- 4. n. a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables Source: wordnet
- 5. n. a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates Source: wordnet
- 6. n:100 n. a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables Source: ecdict
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