Badigeon :: Badigeon (n.) A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface..

Digenea :: Digenea (n. pl.) A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents..

Digenesis :: Digenesis (n.) The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis..

Digenous :: Digenous (a.) Sexually reproductive.

Digerent :: Digerent () Digesting.

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc..

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme..

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations..

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound..

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To ripen; to mature.

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To quiet or abate, as anger or grief..

Digest :: Digest (v. i.) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill..

Digest :: Digest (v. i.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer..

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest..

Digested :: Digested (imp. & p. p.) of Diges.

Digestedly :: Digestedly (adv.) In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically.

Digester :: Digester (n.) One who digests.

Digester :: Digester (n.) A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power..

Digester :: Digester (n.) A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them..

Digestibility :: Digestibility (n.) The quality of being digestible.

Digestible :: Digestible (a.) Capable of being digested.

Digestibleness :: Digestibleness (n.) The quality of being digestible; digestibility.

Digesting :: Digesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diges.

Digestion :: Digestion (n.) The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.

Digestion :: Digestion (n.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood..

Digestion :: Digestion (n.) Generation of pus; suppuration.

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