Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CHYME, n. [Gr. χυμος, juice.]

That particular modification which food assumes after it has undergone the action of the stomach. – Cyc. Among the older authors, juice; chyle, or the finest part of the chyle contained in the lacteals and thoracic duct; any humor incrassated by concoction, whether fit or unfit for preserving and nourishing the body. – Encyc. Coxe. Bailey.