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- English Word Dig Definition To thrust; to poke.
- English Word Dig Definition To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
- English Word Dig Definition To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- English Word Dig Definition To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
- English Word Dig Definition A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.
- English Word Dig Definition A plodding and laborious student.
- English Word Digamist Definition One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist.
- English Word Digamma Definition A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse.
- English Word Digammate Definition Alt. of Digammated
- English Word Digammated Definition Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek /.
- English Word Digamous Definition Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband.
- English Word Digamy Definition Act, or state, of being twice married; deuterogamy.
- English Word Digastric Definition Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw.
- English Word Digastric Definition Pertaining to the digastric muscle of the lower jaw; as, the digastric nerves.
- English Word Digenea Definition A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.
- English Word Digenesis Definition The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis.
- English Word Digenous Definition Sexually reproductive.
- English Word Digerent Definition Digesting.
- English Word Digest Definition 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.
- English Word Digest Definition 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.
- English Word Digest Definition 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.
- English Word Digest Definition To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
- English Word Digest Definition Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
- English Word Digest Definition To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
- English Word Digest Definition To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
- English Word Digest Definition To ripen; to mature.
- English Word Digest Definition To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
- English Word Digest Definition To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
- English Word Digest Definition To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
- English Word Digest Definition That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles