Crossword-Solution: DIGESTER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Digester | n. | One who digests. |
| Digester | n. | A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. |
| Digester | n. | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DIGESTER | anagram | REDIGEST |
We have 4 clues for the answer “DIGESTER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A condenser of articles. | 1 answer |
| Make of abridgments. | 1 answer |
| One who abridges books | 1 answer |
| AUTOCLAVE CONSISTING OF A VESSEL IN WHICH PLANT OR ANIMAL MATERIALS ARE DIGESTED | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DIGESTER (5)
This, he declares, is a purely mechanical process due to heat and pressure, the wonderful effects of which may be seen in Papin's recently invented 'digester.' That the stomach is fully able to comminute the food may be proved by the following calculation.
But what man that believed in such a Universe as that of this Dead-Sea Pamphleteer could consent to live in it at all? Who that believed in such a Universe, and did not design to live like a Papin's-Digester, or PORCUS EPICURI, in an extremely ugly manner in it, could avoid one of two things: Going rapidly into Bedlam, or else blowing his brains out? "It will not do for me at any rate, this infinite Dog-house; not for me, ye Dryasdusts, and omnipotent Dog-monsters and Mud-gods, whoever you are.
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.
Remove the marrow from the bones, and cut the meat into small pieces; put all together into a stock pot or digester, cover well with cold water, and bring it to the boil; add a dessertspoonful of salt; this will throw up the scum, which must be carefully removed.
Curzon, at Hagley near Rugely in Staffordfshire; these may have been exposed to great heat as they were immersed in water; which water under great pressure of superincumbent materials may have been rendered red- hot, as in Papin's digester; and have thus possessed powers of solution with which we are unacquainted.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1955–1976).