Definition for IN-DI-GES'TION

IN-DI-GES'TION, n. [in and digestion.]

Want of due coction in the stomach; a failure of that change in food which prepares it for nutriment; crudity. Encyc. As a disease, dyspepsy; that state of the stomach, in which it is incapable of performing its natural healthy functions.

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