Di*gest"ive (?), a. [F. digestif, L. digestivus.] Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.
Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be.
B. Jonson.
Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it. -- Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.
Di*gest"ive, n. 1. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. Chaucer.
That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself.
Blackw. Mag.
2. (Med.) (a) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration. Dunglison. (b) A tonic. [R.]
Di*gest"or (?), n. See Digester.
Di*ges"ture (?; 135), n. Digestion. [Obs.] Harvey.
Dig"ga*ble (?), a. Capable of being dug.
Dig"ger (?), n. One who, or that which, digs.
Digger wasp (Zoöl.), any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.
Dig"gers (?), n. pl.; sing. Digger. (Ethnol.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
Dig"ging (?), n. 1. The act or the place of excavating.
2. pl. Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained. [Recent]