Digestion (n.) Generation of pus; suppuration.
Digestive (a.) Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.
Digestive (n.) That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.
Digestive (n.) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration.
Digestive (n.) A tonic.
Digestor (n.) See Digester.
Digesture (n.) Digestion.
Diggable (a.) Capable of being dug.
Digger (n.) One who, or that which, digs.
Diggers (n. pl.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
Digging (n.) The act or the place of excavating.
Digging (n.) Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained.
Digging (n.) Region; locality.
Dight (imp. & p. p.) of Dight
Dighted () of Dight
Dighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dight
Dight (v. t.) To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn.
Dight (v. t.) To have sexual intercourse with.
Dighter (n.) One who dights.
Digit (n.) One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.
Digit (n.) A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.
Digit (n.) One of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed; -- so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing.
Digit (n.) One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.
Digit (v. t.) To point at or out with the finger.
Digital (a.) Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.
Digitain (n.) Any one of several extracts of foxglove (Digitalis), as the "French extract," the "German extract," etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties.
Digitain (n.) A supposedly distinct vegetable principle as the essential ingredient of the extracts. It is a white, crystalline substance, and is regarded as a glucoside.
Digitalis (n.) A genus of plants including the foxglove.
Digitalis (n.) The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.
Digitate (v. t.) To point out as with the finger.
Digitate (a.) Alt. of Digitated
Digitated (a.) Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation.
Digitation (n.) A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.
Digitiform (a.) Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root.
Digitigrade (a.) Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade.
Digitigrade (n.) 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.
Digitipartite (a.) Parted like the fingers.
Digitize (v. t.) To finger; as, to digitize a pen.
Digitorium (n.) A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.
Digitule (n.) A little finger or toe, or something resembling one.
Digladiate (v. i.) To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently.
Digladiation (n.) Act of digladiating.
Diglottism (n.) Bilingualism.
Diglyph (n.) A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.
Dignation (n.) The act of thinking worthy; honor.
Digne (a.) Worthy; honorable; deserving.
Digne (a.) Suitable; adequate; fit.
Digne (a.) Haughty; disdainful.
Dignification (n.) The act of dignifying; exaltation.
Dignified (a.) Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge.
Dignified (imp. & p. p.) of Dignify
Dignifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dignify
Dignify (v. t.) To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.
Dignitaries (pl. ) of Dignitary
Dignitary (n.) One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.
Dignities (pl. ) of Dignity
Dignity (n.) The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.
Dignity (n.) Elevation; grandeur.
Dignity (n.) Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation.
Dignity (n.) Quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; -- said of //en, manner, style, etc.
Dignity (n.) One holding high rank; a dignitary.
Dignity (n.) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.
Dignotion (n.) Distinguishing mark; diagnostic.
Digonous (a.) Having two angles.
Digram (n.) A digraph.
Digraph (n.) Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.
Digraphic (a.) Of or pertaining to a digraph.
Digressed (imp. & p. p.) of Digress
Digressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Digress
Digress (v. i.) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
Digress (v. i.) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
Digress (n.) Digression.
Digression (n.) The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.
Digression (n.) A turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense.
Digression (n.) The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets.
Digressional (a.) Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
Digressive (a.) Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression.
Digressively (adv.) By way of digression.
Digue (n.) A bank; a dike.
Digynia (n.) A Linnaean order of plants having two styles.
Digynian (a.) Alt. of Digynous
Digynous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles.
Dihedral (a.) Having two plane faces; as, the dihedral summit of a crystal.
Dihedron (n.) A figure with two sides or surfaces.
Dihexagonal (a.) Consisting of two hexagonal parts united; thus, a dihexagonal pyramid is composed of two hexagonal pyramids placed base to base.
Dihexagonal (a.) Having twelve similar faces; as, a dihexagonal prism.
Diiamb (n.) A diiambus.
Diiambus (n.) A double iambus; a foot consisting of two iambuses (/ / / /).
Diiodide (n.) A compound of a binary type containing two atoms of iodine; -- called also biniodide.
Diisatogen (n.) A red crystalline nitrogenous substance or artificial production, which by reduction passes directly to indigo.
Dijudicant (n.) One who dijudicates.
Dijudicated (imp. & p. p.) of Dijudicate
Dijucating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dijudicate
Dijudicate (v. i.) To make a judicial decision; to decide; to determine.
Dijudication (n.) The act of dijudicating; judgment.
Dika (n.) A kind of food, made from the almondlike seeds of the Irvingia Barteri, much used by natives of the west coast of Africa; -- called also dika bread.
Dike (n.) A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
Dike (n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
Dike (n.) A wall of turf or stone.
Dike (n.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.