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n. [ F. almageste, LL. almageste, Ar. al-majistī, fr. Gr. &unr_; (sc. &unr_;), the greatest composition. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L. (usually in pl.); pref. ambi-, amb- + agere to drive: cf. F. ambage. ] A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'analghsi`a; 'an priv. + a`lghsis sense of pain. ] (Med.) Absence of sensibility to pain. Quain. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'analghsi`a; 'an priv. + 'a`lghsis sense of pain. ] (Med.) Serving to reduce the sensibility to pain without loss of consciousness. AS [ PJC ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'analghsi`a; 'an priv. + 'a`lghsis sense of pain. ] (Med.) a medication which serves to reduce the sensibility to pain without loss of consciousness. Aspirin and acetaminophen (paracetamol, trade name Tylenol) are commonly used non-prescription analgesics. AS [ PJC + AS ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Apteryx. ] (Zool.) An order of birds, including the genus Apteryx. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., Thou shalt sprinkle. ] (R. C. Ch.) (a) The service or ceremony of sprinkling with holy water. (b) The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + suggestion. ] (Med.) 1. Self-suggestion as distinguished from suggestion coming from another, especially in hypnotism. Autosuggestion is characteristic of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. hypnosis induced by oneself.
Syn. -- self-hypnosis, self-suggestion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Beg + -ster. ] A beggar. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a., superl. of Big. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. in a vessel with two hulls, an enclosed area between the frames at each side. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. Heb. bnē hargem sons of thunder. -- an appellation given by Christ to two of his disciples (James and John). See Mark iii. 17. ] Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. burgeis, OF. burgeis, fr. burcfortified town, town, F. bourg village, fr. LL. burgus fort, city; from the German; cf. MHG. burc, G. burg. See 1st Borough, and cf. 2d Bourgeois. ] 1. An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “A burgess of a borough corresponds with a citizen of a city.” Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who represents a borough in Parliament. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A magistrate of a borough. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Before the Revolution, the representatives in the popular branch of the legislature of Virginia were called burgesses; they are now called delegates. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burgess oath. See Burgher, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of privilege of a burgess. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F., prop., song of history. ] 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.

Langtoft had written in the ordinary measure of the later chansons de geste. Saintsbury. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The office of a chargé d'affaires. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. circumgestare to carry around; circum + gestare to carry. ] The act or process of carrying about. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. sing. & pl. [ L., fr. compingere. See Compact, v. t. ] A system or structure of many parts united. [ 1913 Webster ]

A regular compages of pipes and vessels. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. congestus, p. p. of congere to bring together; con- + gerere. See Gerund. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

To what will thy congested guilt amount? Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) To cause an overfullness of the blood vessels (esp. the capillaries) of an organ or part. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Bot.) Crowded together. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Containing an unnatural accumulation of blood; hyperæmic; -- said of any part of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. congestio: cf. F. congestion. ] 1. The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The congestion of dead bodies one upon another. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyperæmia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ OE. See Dag a loose end. ] An ornamental cutting of the edges of garments, introduced about a. d. 1346, according to the Chronicles of St Albans. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) a sum of money paid in compensation for an injury or wrong.
Syn. -- amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to narrate; dia` through + &unr_; to lead. ] A narrative or history; a recital or relation. [ 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 ]

v. t. To digest. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. (Carp.) Having an edge planed, -- said of a board. Knight.

v. t. [ L. egestus, p. p. of egerere to carry out, to discharge; e out + gerere to carry. ] (Physiol.) To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., neut. pl. from p. p. of L. egere. See Egest. ] (Physiol.) That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. egestio. ] Act or process of egesting; a voiding. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; detailed narrative, fr. &unr_; to recount in detail; 'epi` + &unr_; to lead, point out. See Exegesis. ] A full or additional explanation; exegesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Exegeses [ NL., fr.Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to explain, interpret; &unr_; out + &unr_; to guide, lead, akin, to &unr_; to lead. See Agent. ] 1. Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) The process of finding the roots of an equation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Fool-large, Largess. ] Foolish expenditure; waste. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A gosling. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]