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 digester.
Sir W. Temple. 3. 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
(Di*gest`i*bil"i*ty) n. The quality of being digestible.
Digestible
(Di*gest"i*ble) a. [F. digestible, L. digestibilis.] Capable of being digested.
Digestibleness
(Di*gest"i*ble*ness), n. The quality of being digestible; digestibility.
Digestion
(Di*ges"tion) n. [F. digestion, L. digestio.]
1. The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.
2. (Physiol.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products,
capable of being absorbed by the blood.
3. (Med.) Generation of pus; suppuration.
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 there sure will be.
B. Jonson. Digestive apparatus,
the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected
with it. — Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.
Digestive
(Di*gest"ive), n.
1. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. Chaucer.
That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself.
Blackw. Mag. 2. (Med.) (a) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration. Dunglison.
(b) A tonic. [R.]
Digestor
(Di*gest"or) n. See Digester.
Digesture
(Di*ges"ture) n. Digestion. [Obs.] Harvey.
Diggable
(Dig"ga*ble) a. Capable of being dug.
Digger
(Dig"ger) n. One who, or that which, digs.
Digger wasp (Zoöl.),
any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.
Diggers
(Dig"gers) n. pl.; sing. Digger. (Ethnol.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; — so called
from their practice of digging roots for food.
Digging
(Dig"ging) n.