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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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Etymology of 'Digester'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Digester" Quotes from Famous Books

... deficiencies; these deficiencies force the person to overeat and regain even more weight afterward. This is largely untrue, though there is one true aspect to it: a fasted, detoxified body becomes a much more efficient digester and assimilator, extracting a lot more nutrition from the same amount food is used to eat. If, after extended fasting a person returns to eating the same number of calories as they did before; they will gain weight even more rapidly than before they stated fasting. When fasting ...

— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon

... in this bulletin, the Department of Agriculture employed a rotary digester of its own design,[2] comprising a shell 5 feet 5 inches in length by 4 feet in diameter, capable of holding about 300 pounds of air-dry hurds. It is believed that a test of this size is large enough to give satisfactory results and that the results are susceptible of commercial ...

— Hemp Hurds as Paper-Making Material - United States Department of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 404 • Lyster H. Dewey and Jason L. Merrill

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