Defn: Lack of proper digestive action; a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion.
INDIGITATE
In*dig"i*tate, v. i. Etym: [Pref. in- in + L. digitus finger.]
Defn: To communicative ideas by the fingers; to show or compute by the fingers. [Obs.]
INDIGITATE
In*dig"i*tate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indigitated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Indigitating.]
Defn: To point out with the finger; to indicate. [Obs.] The depressing this finger, . . . in the right hand indigitate six hundred. Sir T. Browne.
INDIGITATION
In*dig`i*ta"tion, n.
Defn: The act of pointing out as with the finger; indication. [Obs.]
Dr. H. More.
INDIGLUCIN
In`di*glu"cin, n. Etym: [Indican + glucin.] (Chem.)
Defn: The variety of sugar (glucose) obtained from the glucoside indican. It is unfermentable, but reduces Fehling's solution.
INDIGN
In*dign", a. Etym: [L. indignus; pref. in- not + dignus worthy: cf.
F. indigne. See Dignity.]