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am Over the heavenly theme. Keble. They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting. Locke.

To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson.

thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us. Digby.

To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call. A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth. Pope.

of Dig.

The title or dignity of a duke. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the duodenum; as, duodenal digestion.

The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.

The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.

A kind of indigestion; a state of the stomach in which its functions are disturbed, without the presence of other diseases, or, if others are present, they are of minor importance. Its symptoms are loss of appetite, nausea, heartburn, acrid or fetid eructations, a sense of weight or fullness in the stomach, etc. Dungli…

orders all great ceremonials, takes cognizance of matters relating to honor, arms, and pedigree, and directs the proclamation of peace and war. The court of chivalry was formerly under his jurisdiction, and he is still the head of the herald's office or college of arms.

The status, title, or dignity of an earl. He [Pulteney] shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom. Chesterfield.

A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.

gyman; a priest. From a humble ecclesiastic, he was subsequently preferred to the highest dignities of the church. Prescott.

ess; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire. The full edge of our indignation. Sir W. Scott. Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices. Jer. Taylor.

Digging up.

A digging out or up. [R.] "The effossion of coins." Arbuthnot.

Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal. [Obs.] Young.

To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.

In addition; also; likewise. [Obs. or Archaic] 'T will be prodigious hard to prove That this is eke the throne of love. Prior. A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. Cowper.