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Out of season; untimely. [Obs.] Burton. Intempestive bashfulness gets nothing. Hales.

Unseasonably. [Obs.]

Investing. [R.] Mir. for Mag.

See Persistent. Shak.

Serving to resist. B. Jonsosn.

Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; drawing back. Restive or resty, drawing back, instead of going forward, as some horses do. E. Philips (1658). The people remarked with awe and wonder that the beasts which were to drag him [Abraham Holmes] to the gallows became restive, and went back.…

Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation. -- Sug*gest"ive*ly, adv. -- Sug*gest"ive*ness, n.

Treatment by commands or positive statements addressed to a more or less hypnotized patient.

Seasonable; timely; as, tempestive showers. [Obs.] Heywood. -- Tem*pes"tive*ly, adv. [Obs.]

The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.

Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm.

Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.

outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part. The mouth, the antechamber to the digestive canal. Todd & Bowman.

The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

e morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning. Grove. The crowing cock . . . Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear. Longfellow.

Costive; constipated.

reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.

Constipated; costive.

One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera. Asiatic cholera, a malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or spec…

t or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.