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Digestion. [Obs.] Harvey.

Capable of being dug.

One who, or that which, digs. Digger wasp (Zoöl.), any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.

A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.

The act or the place of excavating.

in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn. [Archaic] "She gan the house to dight." Chaucer. Two harmless turtles, dight for sacrifice. Fairfax. The clouds in thousand liveries dight. Milton.

One who dights. [Obs.]

limb appendage; a finger or toe. The ruminants have the "cloven foot," i. e., two hoofed digits on each foot. Owen.

Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.

The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.

To point out as with the finger. [R.] Robinson (Eudoxa).

rs of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation. -- Dig"i*tate*ly, adv.

A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.

Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root.

Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade.

Parted like the fingers.

To finger; as, to digitize a pen. [R.] Sir T. Browne. computers to convert (information, a signal, an image) into a form expressible in binary notation

A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.

A little finger or toe, or something resembling one.

To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently. [Obs.] Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes. Hales.