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<hw>Di*gest"ive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>digestif</ets>, L. <ets>digestivus</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; <as>as, the <ex>digestive</ex> ferments</as>.</def>

<blockquote><b>Digestive</b> cheese and fruit there sure will be. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Digestive apparatus</col>, <cd>the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it.</cd> -- <col>Digestive salt</col>, <cd>the chloride of potassium.</cd></cs>

<h1>Digestive</h1> <Xpage=411>

<hw>Di*gest"ive</hw>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.</def>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<blockquote>That <b>digestive</b> [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself. <i>Blackw. Mag.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration</def>. <i>Dunglison</i>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A tonic.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Digestor</h1> <Xpage=411>

<hw>Di*gest"or</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Digester</er>.</def>

<h1>Digesture</h1> <Xpage=411>

<hw>Di*ges"ture</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Digestion.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Harvey.</i>

<h1>Diggable</h1> <Xpage=411>

<hw>Dig"ga*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being dug.</def>

<h1>Digger</h1> <Xpage=411>

<hw>Dig"ger</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, digs.</def>

<cs><col>Digger wasp</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.</cd></cs>

<h1>Diggers</h1> <Xpage=411>

<hw>Dig"gers</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt>; <sing>sing. <singw>Digger</singw></sing>. <fld>(Ethnol.)</fld> <def>A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.</def>

<h1>Digging</h1> <Xpage=411>

<hw>Dig"ging</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or the place of excavating.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained.</def> <mark>[Recent]</mark>

<p><b>3.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>Region; locality.</def> <mark></mark>

<h1>Dight</h1> <Xpage=411>

<hw>Dight</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dight</er> &or; <er>Dighted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dighting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OF. <ets>dihten</ets>, AS. <ets>dihtan</ets> to dictate, command, dispose, arrange, fr. L. <ets>dictare</ets> to say often, dictate, order; cf. G. <ets>dichten</ets> to write poetry, fr. L. <ets>dictare</ets>. See <er>Dictate</er>.]</ety>