digging machine (digingmashen")

A machine for spading or breaking up the ground. It employs either a gang of spade-like tools that are thrust into the ground and then withdrawn with a twisting mo tion, or a wheel armed with shares like a plowshare, which are thrust into the ground as the wheel is revolved by the forward motion of the machine. dight (dīt), v. t.; pret. and pp. dight. [ Thise were digt on the des, & derworthly serued, & sithen mony siker segge at the sidbordez. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 114. 21. Reflexively, to set or addre . Say vs how thou wil him dizt , And we salle giue the dome ful rigt. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 111. 5. To prepare; make ready. [Obsolete or po etical.] Nygh thi bestes dight A fire in colde; it wol thyne oxen mende, And make hem faire, yf thai the fyre attende. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 19. They promised to dight for him Gay chape lets of flowers and gyrlonds trim. Digit aria was 18.5 millimeters or 0.73 of an English inch. See dactyl and fingerbreadth.-3. In astron., the twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon: used in expre ing the quantity of an eclipse: as, an eclipse of six digits (one which hides one half of the diameter).-4. One of the first nine numbers, indicated by the fingers in counting on them; also, one of the nine Arabic numerals, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Any number which can be written with one figure onely is named a digit ; and therefore 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 are onely digits and all the digits that are. T. Hill, Arithmetic (1600), fol. 7 b. digits (dij'it), v. t . [ digit , n.; in allusion to the L. phrase digito monstrari (or demonstrari ), be pointed out with the finger, i. e., be dist in- guished, be famous.] To point at or out with the finger. I shall never care to be digited with a "That is he." Feltham, Resolves, i. 28. Spenser, Astrophel, 1. 41. (dij'i-tal), a. and n. [F. Sp. Pg. IMG:content-2630.png:[blocks in formation] (b) To prepare or make ready by equipping or arraying; dre ; equip; array; deck; adorn. Whan the kynge and his peple were armed, and redy dight, they com to the baill of the toure well arrayde hem to diffende. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 113. And the Crowne lythe in a Ve elle of Cristalle richely dyghte. Mandeville, Travels, p. 12. Oft had he seene her faire, but never so faire dight. Spenser, F. Q., I. xii. 23. What fouler object in the world, than to see a young, fair, handsome beauty unhandsomely dighted? Mas singer, Fatal Dowry, iv. i. How, in Sir William's armour dight, Stolen by his Page, while slept the knight, He took on him the single fight. Scott , L. of L. M., v. 27. 6. To put into the proper or any desired condition by removing obstructions or inequalities; dre ; clean. Specifically To dre or smooth, as a stone by chiseling or a board by planing: (b) To clean. (1) By rubbing or wiping: as, to dight one's nose; to dight away a tear. O she's ta'en out her handkerchief, It was o' the holland sae fine, And aye she dighted her father's bloody wounds, That were redder than the wine. =It. e, L.is, II. n. 1. A digit; a finger or toe. [Rare.] Beauish brigands who wear... paste rings upon unwashed s . Bulwer , What will he do with it? iv. 9. 2. The fifth and last joint of the pedipalp of a spider. It is generally larger than the preceding joints, sometimes much swollen, and in the males modified to for in the complicated sexual or palpal organs. [NL., is , 3. One of the keys or finger-levers of instruments of the organ or piano cla . i a (dij-i-ta'li-ä), n. q. v.] Same as in. dig italic (dij-i-tal'ik), a. (dij-i-tal'ik), a. [