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n. [ F. ] A cement or distemper paste (as of plaster and powdered freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, finish a surface, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ It. ] An Italian marble of which the principal varieties occur in the neighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground traversed by veins. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ p. p. Bedight, Bedighted. ] To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn. [ Archaic ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Blessed. [ R. ] Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + digitate. ] Having two fingers or fingerlike projections. [ 1913 Webster ]

a slightly bow-legged variety of corgi having rounded ears and a long tail.
Syn. -- Cardigan Welsh corgi. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

[ From the Earl of Cardigan, who was famous in the Crimean campaign of 1854-55. ] 1. A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves, especially a knitted jacket with sleeves that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. condigne, L. condignus very worthy; con- + dignus worthy. See Deign, and cf. Digne. ] 1. Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Condign and worthy praise. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Herself of all that rule she deemend most condign. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Deserved; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime. “Condign censure.” Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unless it were a bloody murderer . . .
I never gave them condign punishment. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. condignité. ] (Scholastic Theol.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such a worthiness of condignity, and proper merit of the heavenly glory, cannot be found in any the best, most perfect, and excellent of created beings. Bp. Bull. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. According to merit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Agreeableness to deserts; suitableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dug r Digged p. pr. & vb. n. Digging. -- Digged is archaic. ] [ OE. diggen, perh. the same word as diken, dichen (see Dike, Ditch); cf. Dan. dige to dig, dige a ditch; or (?) akin to E. 1st dag. √67. ] 1. To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be first to dig the ground. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To thrust; to poke. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

You should have seen children . . . dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To like; enjoy; admire. The whole class digs Pearl Jam. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

To dig down, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall. --
To dig from,
To dig out of,
To dig out,
To dig up, to get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes. --
To dig in, (a) to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure. (b) To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; -- used of warfare or negotiating situations. --
to dig in one's heels To offer stubborn resistance. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. i. 1. To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dig for it more than for hid treasures. Job iii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke xvi. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To work hard or drudge; specif. (U. S.): To study ploddingly and laboriously. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Peter dug at his books all the harder. Paul L. Ford. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. (Mach.) Of a tool: To cut deeply into the work because ill set, held at a wrong angle, or the like, as when a lathe tool is set too low and so sprung into the work.

To dig out, to depart; to leave, esp. hastily; decamp. [ Slang, U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A plodding and laborious student. [ Cant, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A tool for digging. [ Dial. Eng. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. An act of digging. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. An amount to be dug. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

6. (Mining) same as Gouge. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

7. a critical and sometimes sarcastic or insulting remark, but often good-humored; as, celebrities at a roast must suffer through countless digs. [ PJC ]

8. An archeological excavation site. [ PJC ]

v. t. 1. To understand; as, do you dig me?. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

2. To notice; to look at; as, dig that crazy hat!. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

3. To appreciate and enjoy; as, he digs classical music as well as rock. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; = &unr_; twice + &unr_; to marry. Cf. Bigamist. ] One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; = &unr_; twice + ga`mma the letter Γ. So called because it resembled two gammas placed one above the other. ] (Gr. Gram.) A letter (&unr_;, &unr_;) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This form identifies it with the Latin F, though in sound it is said to have been nearer V. It was pronounced, probably, much like the English W.

{ } a. Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek 'i`s. Andrews. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a second marriage; di- = di`s- twice + &unr_; marriage. Cf. Bigamy. ] Act, or state, of being twice married; deuterogamy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. di- = di`s- twice + &unr_; belly: cf. F. digastrique. ] (Anat.) (a) Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw. (b) Pertaining to the digastric muscle of the lower jaw; as, the digastric nerves. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. di- = di`s- twice + &unr_; race, offspring. ] (Zool.) A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. di- + genesis. ] (Biol.) The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. di- + -genous. ] (Biol.) Sexually reproductive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Digenous reproduction. (Biol.) Same as Digenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

. [ L. digerens, p. pr. of digerere. See Digest. ] Digesting. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Digested; p. pr. & vb. n. Digesting. ] [ L. digestus, p. p. of digerere to separate, arrange, dissolve, digest; di- = dis- + gerere to bear, carry, wear. See Jest. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Joining them together and digesting them into order. Blair. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer. Sir H. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

How shall this bosom multiplied digest
The senate's courtesy? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grant that we may in such wise hear them [ the Scriptures ], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them. Book of Common Prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. [ 1913 Webster ]

I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Chem.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Med.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To ripen; to mature. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Well-digested fruits. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. digestum, pl. digesta, neut., fr. digestus, p. p.: cf. F. digeste. See Digest, v. t. ] That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles; esp. (Law), 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A complete digest of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects. Sir W. Jones. [ 1913 Webster ]

They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who digests. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being digestible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. digestible, L. digestibilis. ] Capable of being digested. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being digestible; digestibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. digestion, L. digestio. ] 1. The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) Generation of pus; suppuration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. digestif, L. digestivus. ] Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments. [ 1913 Webster ]

Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it. --
Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

That digestive [ a cigar ] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself. Blackw. Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) (a) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration. Dunglison. (b) A tonic. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Digester. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Digestion. [ Obs. ] Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being dug. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, digs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Digger wasp (Zool.), any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Digger. (Ethnol.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or the place of digging or excavating.
Syn. -- excavation, dig. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained. [ Recent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. Region; locality. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion).
Syn. -- ransacking, rummage. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. temporary living quarters.
Syn. -- digs, domiciliation, lodgings, pad. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dight or Dighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dighting. ] [ OF. dihten, AS. dihtan to dictate, command, dispose, arrange, fr. L. dictare to say often, dictate, order; cf. G. dichten to write poetry, fr. L. dictare. See Dictate. ] 1. To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn. [ Archaic ] “She gan the house to dight.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Two harmless turtles, dight for sacrifice. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

The clouds in thousand liveries dight. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have sexual intercourse with. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dights. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. digitus finger; prob. akin to Gr. da`ktylos, of uncertain origin; possibly akin to E. toe. Cf. Dactyl. ] 1. (Zool.) One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ruminants have the “cloven foot, ” i. e., two hoofed digits on each foot. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Math.) One of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed; -- so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ By some authorities the symbol 0 is not included with the digits. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Anat.) One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To point at or out with the finger. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. digitals. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the fingers; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. of or pertaining to digits{ 3 }; expressed in digits{ 3 }, or using digits{ 3 }; as, a digital display; a digital clock. [ PJC ]

3. (Computers) performing internal logical and arithmetic operations by means of digits, usually represented as binary numbers. Contrasted to analog, wherein variables are represented as coninuous physical quantities such as voltages or the position of a pointer on a continuous scale; as, a digital computer. [ PJC ]

☞ In digital computers, physical quantities in analog form, such as images, sounds, distances, voltages, etc., must first be converted to an internal digital representation before calculations can be performed on them. The conversion may be done by the data enterer, by approximation, in the case of numerical values, or by analog-to-digital conversion in the case of light or sound intensities. The latter case uses special equipment to convert the physical impulses into a digital value, using a pre-defined encoding system. [ PJC ]