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To tell stories or gests. [Obs.]

A beggar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Any Old French epic poem having for its subject events or exploits of early French history, real or legendary, and written originally in assonant verse of ten or twelve syllables. The most famous one is the Chanson de Roland.

Crowded together. Gray.

In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically.

, or strengthens digestive power. Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple.

Not digested; undigested. "Indigested food." Dryden.

The state or quality of being undigested; crudeness. Bp. Burnet.

One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.

To heap up. [Obs.] The violence of the waters aggested the earth. Fuller.

saying that these things were so. Acts xxiv. 9. The princess assented to all that was suggested. Macaulay.

A name suggested by Dr. Beale for the germinal matter supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691).

scid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.

hold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus. What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic. Milton.

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.

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

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

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

or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate. To what will thy congested guilt amount Blackmore.