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Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.

The science of digestion.

To convert into peptone; to digest or dissolve by means of a proteolytic ferment; as, peptonized food.

One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.

A purple powder precipitated when a sulphuric solution of indigo is diluted with water.

Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.

raduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys. Dumb piano. See Digitorium. -- Grand piano. See under Grand. -- Square piano, one with a horizontal frame and an oblong case. -- Upright piano, one with an upright frame and vertical wires.

The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.

A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

A sort of crowbar for digging. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling. "The enervating magic of place." Hawthorne. Men in great place are thrice servants. Bacon. I know my place as I would they should do theirs. Shak.…

Lavish; profuse; prodigal. [Obs.] He that is plentiful in expenses will hardly be preserved from Bacon. -- Plen"ti*ful*ly, adv. -- Plen"ti*ful*ness, n.

ame, esp. when marked with the ace, king, queen, jack, ten, and nine instead of the usual digits.

The first, or preaxial, digit of the fore limb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; the thumb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the bastard wing.

The possession of more that the normal number of digits.

Grand and dignified; in grand style.

The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope. Addison.

Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.

The place, office, or dignity of the pope; papal dignity. Shak.

he interstices of anything. [R.] They will forcibly get into the porousness of it. Sir K. Digby.