To digest (food). Hence perhaps the use in Old English for: To brood over (care, anxiety): cf. Greek κήδεα πέσσειν. Obsolete.

transitive. To digest (food). Said of a person, of the stomach or other organ, of nature, a solvent, etc.

transitive. To digest.

Formerly in asseverations: so (or as) brouke I my chyn, eyes, heid, etc.: so may I (or as I wish to) have the use of my eyes, etc.

transitive. To turn or change into something of different form or properties; to transform. spec. To turn into one's own bodily substance; to…

Of a hawk: In early use, apparently = ‘to put over’, i.e. to pass (the food contained in the ‘gorge’) into the stomach; in later use, to digest. (In…

To digest by means of sleep. Obsolete. rare.

To prepare (food) in the stomach and intestines for assimilation by the system; see digestion, n. 1.

transitive. To digest (food). See concoction, n. Obsolete or archaic. (Associated with boiling in 1533.)

To digest in the stomach. (Regarded as a kind of cooking; cf. concoct, v. 4) Also figurative.

transitive. = digest, v.

To prepare (food) for digestion or assimilation; to digest. Obsolete.

transitive. To digest.

To assimilate by digestion.

To digest.

transitive. To appease, mitigate, pacify, relieve, reduce, abate. To digest. Obsolete.

To take into or retain on the stomach, to digest.

transitive. To digest.