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The state or quality of being indigestible; indigestibleness.

Not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption.

ack of proper digestive action; a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion.

To communicative ideas by the fingers; to show or compute by the fingers. [Obs.]

The act of pointing out as with the finger; indication. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

The variety of sugar (glucose) obtained from the glucoside indican. It is unfermentable, but reduces Fehling's solution.

Unworthy; undeserving; disgraceful; degrading. Chaucer. Counts it scorn to draw Comfort indign from any meaner thing. Trench.

Indignation. [Obs.] Spenser.

Affected with indignation; wrathful; passionate; irate; feeling wrath, as when a person is exasperated by unworthy or unjust treatment, by a mean action, or by a degrading accusation. He strides indignant, and with haughty cries To single fight the fairy prince defies. Tickell.

In an indignant manner.

The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious in the conduct of another. Cogan. When Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate,…

To treat disdainfully or with indignity; to contemn. [Obs.] Spenser.

Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult. How might a prince of my great hopes forget So great indignities you laid upon me Shak. A person of so great place and worth constr…

Unworthily. [Obs.]

A kind of deep blue, one of the seven prismatic colors.

A genus of leguminous plants having many species, mostly in tropical countries, several of them yielding indigo, esp. Indigofera tinctoria, and I. Anil.

See Indigo white, under Indigo.

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of an indigo solution, as in volumetric analysis. Ure.

The art or method of determining the coloring power of indigo.

Pertaining to, or derived from, indigo; as, indigotic acid, which is also called anilic or nitrosalicylic acid.