Crossword-Solution: DIGITUS 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The Greek Skematízein was made by closing the hand to represent the scrotum and raising the middle finger as if to feel whether a hen had eggs, tâter si les poulettes ont l’uf: hence the Athenians called it Catapygon or sodomite and the Romans digitus impudicus or infamis, the “medical finger”[FN#380] of Rabelais and the Chiromantists.

Digitus: the terminal joint of the tarsus, bearing the claws: a small appendage attached to the lacinia of the maxilla; rarely present and probably tactile.

Inde duas adde primas hac condicione; 40 Si digitus crescat ex addicione priorum, Primo scribe loco digitum, quicunque sit ille; Si sit compositus, in limite scribe sequenti Articulum, primo digitum; quia sic iubet ordo.

Nam si sit digitus, in primo limite scribe; Articulus si sit, in primo limite cifram, Articulum vero reliquis inscribe figuris; 76 Vel per se scribas, si nulla figura sequatur: Compositus si sit, in limite scribe sequenti Articulum primo, digitum; quia sic jubet ordo: Et sic de reliquis facias, si sint tibi plures.

Pers._ [Illustration: Figure 417.--Verpa digitaliformis.] Digitaliformis is from _digitus_, a finger, and _forma_, a form.