Hither the Cormorants, when their hunger is appeased, repair for the threefold purpose of resting, digesting their food, and drying their wings.
In the morning, the Owl will retire to his private cell and will spend the day perched on end, dozing and digesting as long as the sunlight is too powerful for his large and sensitive eyes.
This organ also suffers from anxiety of mind, a sedentary life, or a costive habit; from these and other causes it becomes weakened, irritable, and incapable of digestingthe most simple food.
Living on and digesting the sugar, it decomposes the sugar molecules into alcohol and carbonic acid.
All these wandering cells possess the faculty of absorbing and digesting microbes.
Alabaster may be stained by digesting it, after heing heated, in various pigmentary solutions; and in this way a good imitation of coral has been produced (alabaster coral).
By digesting in hot alcohol, a substance termed ambrein, closely resembling cholesterin, is obtained, which separates in brilliant white crystals as the solution cools.
He gave a day or two to digesting the dreadful necessity, and then began to turn his thoughts practically to the future.
After digestingit alone in the best manner he could, he had now come to submit it to the keen and calm inspection of Miss Trevlyn.
I suppose I am not," assented he, after digesting the words.
Mr. Chattaway had not done digestingthe unpalatable remark when George entered.
Most of these bacteria have also the property of coagulating or curdling milk in an alkaline medium, and then digesting the curd.
It is also true that the body cells possess the property of digesting the proteins of the blood and building them up again into those which are characteristic of the cell.
In the year 1831, the powerful Order of the Jesuits saw fit to begin to act upon information which had for some time been digesting in their hands.
This is prepared by digesting wood with caustic soda in revolving boilers for eight or ten hours at a pressure of 60 to 80 lbs.
This is sulphite pulp prepared by digesting the wood at a much lower temperature and for a longer period than the ordinary sulphite.
This name is given to pulp prepared by digesting wood with solutions containing sulphurous acid, or salts of sulphurous acid.
The paper-maker prepares the caustic required for digesting the raw material from recovered ash and carbonate of soda.
Prepared by digesting the wood with a mixture of caustic soda, sulphide of soda, and sulphate of soda.
Most vegetable fibres are converted into pulp by alkaline processes, that is by digesting the raw material with caustic soda and similar alkaline substances.
Specimens were shown in which the cells were actually ingesting anddigesting the specific micro-organisms.
It is like a two-edged weapon; on one side it poisons the system, and on the other it ruins the stomach and thus prevents this organ from properlydigesting the necessary food.
It can be prepared by digesting red lead with warm dilute nitric acid; washing and drying the residue.
It may be made by slaking quicklime and digesting the slaked lime with water.
The fused chloride can be removed from the crucible (to which it adheres strongly) by digesting with dilute acid and zinc.
The precipitated sulphides, after digesting with soda and washing, are dissolved in nitric acid and the solution boiled with ammonium carbonate.
If it be required to obtain the pure metal from tin ores containing the ores of other metals associated with them, the latter must be removed by digesting in strong hydrochloric acid, and washing.
Obtained as a brown powder by digesting red lead with nitric acid and filtering.
There is only one remedy, a minimum dose, a half-centigram of acetate of morphine taken every evening after digesting your dinner, for a week at least.
It was nothing after all, except temporary impossibility of digesting anything whatever.
We observed one morning a small one of a deadly poisonous species, named Kakone, on a bush by the wayside, quietly resting in a horizontal position, digesting a lizard for breakfast.
The signs indicating that the food should be increased are, that the infant is not satisfied, not gaining in weight, but is digesting well, i.
Partially peptonized milk is useful for young infants who have great difficulty in digesting the curd of milk, sometimes even when diluted as already described; completely peptonized milk, during acute attacks of indigestion.
For children who have difficulty in digesting milk, it should be somewhat diluted, i.
Under the same conditions as beef juice, particularly with infants who have difficulty in digesting the proteins (curd) of milk.
To increase when the infant is not satisfied but is digesting well.
Forth trundled the cab into the Christmas streets, the fare within plunged in the blackness of a despair that neighboured on unconsciousness, the driver on the box digestinghis rebuke and his customer's duplicity.
So, also, Miss Alcock has demonstrated the power of digesting fibrin in a similar secretion of the epithelial cells lining the carapace of the crayfish.
Such an animal could go on living and absorbing and digesting food, although its epiblastic surface was now its digestive internal surface.
She examined the different tissues of Ammocoetes for the express purpose of finding out their power of digesting fibrin, with the result that the most active cells were those of the liver.
So, the epithelial cells of the mucous membrane of the nose and eyes, though they have no longer anything to do with digesting our food, secrete a ferment or enzyme that can split up any protein that may happen along.
The anaphylaxis theory of hay fever is based on the observation that the epithelial cells of the mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, and throat have not lost their primitive power of digesting foreign protein.
They also develop the power of making large amounts of the digesting enzyme, which is absorbed into the blood and is supplied to all the tissues of the body, so that all tissues, including the skin, can decompose the pollen protein.
Ages ago, when we were amoebae or little drops of protoplasm, we had no eyes or nose or separate stomach for digesting food.
One of the most important powers of that cell body was its power of digesting and assimilating food, and its most important food was the nitrogenous food or protein from which it built up its own body substance.
These are the casein-digesting organisms, while the grass is comparable to the more native lactic-acid flora.
Freudenreich has shown that acid inhibits the growth of the casein-digesting microbes and vice versâ.
During the first forty days of this period the casein-digesting and gas-producing organisms are present, and at first increasing, but relatively to only a very slight degree.
In deciding whether plants are poisonous it is desirable not merely to test the aqueous or alcoholic extract, but also the extracts obtained by digesting these plants with the ferments which occur in the gastro-intestinal tract.
One beautiful summer afternoon, he was lying in the shade, nonchalantly digesting his food, when he happened to glance at the crowd that surrounded the pit.
Her vanity had grown to enormous magnitude; her credulity was in proportion; while her power of swallowing and digesting any flattery, however gross, was something fabulous.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "digesting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
