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[marduk]

Digit: defence, behaviour, so on and so forth.

actually
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=digit

digit
1398, from L. digitus "finger or toe," related to dicere "tell, say, point out"

[Forum Monk]

digit
1398, from L. digitus "finger or toe," related to dicere "tell, say, point out"

This is why, when you give the finger is 'speaks' volumes.