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The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.

The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.

shapen, or inappropriate; as, a clumsy person; a clumsy workman; clumsy fingers; a clumsy gesture; a clumsy excuse. But thou in clumsy verse, unlicked, unpointed, Hast shamefully defied the Lord's anointed. Dryden.

Digestion. [Obs.]

e courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.

A collection or digest of laws; a code. Burrill.

coeliac axis. -- Coeliac flux, Coeliac passion (Med.), a chronic flux or diarrhea of undigested food.

rkey a drink called coffee . . . This drink comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion. Bacon.

The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world. [Written also Colosseum.]

ne speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them. Lamb.

ited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term. Sir W. Hamilton.

The external ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal.

To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. [Obs.] Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates. Cheyne.

A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion. [Obs.]

Having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive. Hence the concoctive powers, with various art, Subdue the cruder aliments to chyle. J. Armstrong.

Conducting power; -- the reciprocal of resistance. A suggested unit is the mho, the reciprocal of the ohm.

Same as Leader. Prime conductor (Elec.), the largest conductor of an electrical machine, serving to collect, accumulate, or retain the electricity.

rmation of anything, as of the head for fitting a hat, or, in craniometry, finding the largest horizontal area of the head.

being called congenital; while the diseases of affections that may have supervened during gestation or delivery are called connate. Dunglison.

To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional; to include; to imply. Hammond.