Index of English words, starting with "di"

(1) - Digastric (a.) Pertaining to the digastric muscle of the lower jaw; as, the digastric nerves.
(2) - Digastric (a.) 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.

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

(1) - 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.
(2) - Digest (v. t.) That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
(3) - Digest (v. i.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
(4) - Digest (v. i.) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
(5) - Digest (v. t.) To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
(6) - Digest (v. t.) To ripen; to mature.
(7) - Digest (v. t.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
(8) - 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.
(9) - Digest (v. t.) Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
(10) - Digest (v. t.) To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
(11) - 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.
(12) - 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.
(13) - 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.

(1) - 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.
(2) - Digester (n.) A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power.
(3) - Digester (n.) One who digests.