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noun

Digester n.

One who digests.

A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. "Rice is... a great restorer of health, and a great digester."

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Digester" Quotes from Famous Books

... old man. The symptoms, as stated to me, were strikingly like yours, excepting the nervous difference of the two characters; the flittering fever, etc. He was advised to reduce lean beef to a pure jelly, by Papin's digester, with as little water as could secure it from burning, and of this to take half a wine glass 10 or 14 times a day. This and nothing else. He did so. Sir George Beaumont saw, within a few weeks a letter from himself to Lord St. Asaph, in which he relates the circumstance of his perseverence ...

— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull

... for all. But don't claim incompatible qualities for anybody. Justice is a very rare virtue in our community. Everything that public sentiment cares about is put into a Papin's digester, and boiled under high pressure till all is turned into one homogeneous pulp, and the very bones give up their jelly. What are all the strongest epithets of our dictionary to us now? The critics and politicians, and especially the philanthropists, ...

— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

Words linked to "Digester" : steriliser, digest