Aggest :: Aggest (v. t.) To heap up.

Almagest :: Almagest (n.) The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works..

Beggestere :: Beggestere (n.) A beggar.

Biggest :: Biggest (a.) superl. of Big.

Circumgestation :: Circumgestation (n.) The act or process of carrying about.

Congest :: Congest (v. t. ) To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate.

Congest :: Congest (v. t. ) To cause an overfullness of the blood vessels (esp. the capillaries) of an organ or part.

Congested :: Congested (a.) Crowded together.

Congested :: Congested (a.) Containing an unnatural accumulation of blood; hyperaemic; -- said of any part of the body.

Congestion :: Congestion (n.) The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.

Congestion :: Congestion (n.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyper/mia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs..

Congestive :: Congestive (a.) Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever..

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc..

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme..

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations..

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound..

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To ripen; to mature.

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To quiet or abate, as anger or grief..

Digest :: Digest (v. i.) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill..

Digest :: Digest (v. i.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer..

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest..

Digested :: Digested (imp. & p. p.) of Diges.

Digestedly :: Digestedly (adv.) In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically.

Digester :: Digester (n.) One who digests.

Digester :: Digester (n.) A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power..

Digester :: Digester (n.) A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them..

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