Webster's Dictionary 1913

3187

Digester

Di‐gest″er (?), n. 1. One who digests.2. A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power.Rice is... a great restorer of health, and a great ...

3188

Digestibility

Di‐gest′i‐bil″i‐ty (?), n. The quality of being digestible.

3189

Digestible

Di‐gest″i‐ble (?), a. [F. digestible, L. digestibilis.] Capable of being digested.

3190

Digestibleness

Di‐gest″i‐ble‐ness, n. The quality of being digestible; digestibility.

3191

Digestion

Di‐ges″tion (?; 106), n. [F. digestion, L. digestio.] 1. The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.2. (Physiol.) The conversi...

3192

Digestive

Di‐gest″ive (?), a. [F. digestif, L. digestivus.] Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.Digestive cheese and fruit ...

3193

Digestive (2)

Di‐gest″ive, n. 1. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. Chaucer.That digestive had become to me as necessary as the meal itself. Blackw. Mag.2. (Med.) (a) A substan...

3194

Digestor

Di‐gest″or (?), n. See Digester.

3195

Digesture

Di‐ges″ture (?; 135), n. Digestion. Harvey.

3196

Diggable

Dig″ga‐ble (?), a. Capable of being dug.

3197

Digger

Dig″ger (?), n. One who, or that which, digs.Digger wasp(Zoöl.), any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.

3198

Diggers

Dig″gers (?), n. pl.; sing. Digger. (Ethnol.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; — so called from their practice of digging roots for food.

3199

Digging

Dig″ging (?), n. 1. The act or the place of excavating.2. pl. Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is o...

3200

Dight

Dight (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.DightorDighted; p. pr. & vb. n.Dighting.] [OF. dihten, AS. dihtan to dictate, command, dispose, arrange, fr. L. dictare to say often, dictate, orde...

3201

Dighter

Dight″er (?), n. One who dights.

3202

Digit

Dig″it (dĭj″ĭt), n. [L. digitus finger; prob. akin to Gr. δάκτυλοσ, of uncertain origin; possibly akin to E. toe. Cf. Dactyl.] 1. (Zoöl.) One of the terminal divisions of a limb...

3203

Digit (2)

Dig″it, v. t. To point at or out with the finger.

3204

Digital

Dig″i‐tal (dĭj″ĭ‐tal), a. [L. digitals.] Of or pertaining to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.

3205

Digitalin

Dig″i‐ta′lin (?), n. [Cf. F. digitaline.] (a) (Med.) Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the “French extract,” the “German extract,” etc., which differ among...

3206

Digitalis

Dig′i‐ta″lis (?), n. [NL.: cf. F. digitale. So named (according to Linnæus) from its finger-shaped corolla.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of plants including the foxglove.2. (Med.) The dri...

3207

Digitate

Dig″i‐tate (?), v. t. [LL. digitatus, p. p. of digitare, fr. L. digitus. See Digit.] To point out as with the finger. Robinson (Eudoxa).

3208

Digitate (2)

{ Dig″i‐tate (?), Dig″i‐ta′ted (?) }, a. [L. digitatus having fingers.] (Bot.) Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or peti...

3209

Digitation

Dig′i‐ta″tion (?), n. [Cf. F. digitation.] A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.

3210

Digitiform

Dig″i‐ti‐form (?), a. [L. digitus a finger + -form.] Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root.

3211

Digitigrade

Dig″i‐ti‐grade (?), a. [L. digitus finger, toe + gradi to step, walk: cf. F. digitigrade.] (Zoöl.) Walking on the toes; — distinguished from plantigrade.

3212

Digitigrade (2)

Dig″i‐ti‐grade, n.(Zoöl.) An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; — distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot.

3213

Digitipartite

Dig′i‐ti‐par″tite (?), a. [L. digitus finger + partite.] (Bot.) Parted like the fingers.