818 DIG 
To DIFFU'SE, v. a. \_dffufus,'Lax.~\ To pour out upon 
a plane, fo that the liquor may run every way; to pour 
without particular direction.—When thefe waters began 
to rife at fird, long before they could fwell to the height 
of the mountains, they would diffuje themfelves every 
way. Burnet .■—To fpread ; to fcatter; to difperfe.—No 
fedt wants its apoftles to propagate and dijfufe it. Decay of 
Piety. 
Wifdom had ordain’d 
Good out of evil to create; in Head 
Ot fpirits malign, a better race to bring 
Into their vacant room, and thence dijfufe 
His good to worlds, and ages, infinite. Milton. 
DIFFU'SE, adj. [ diffufus , Lat.] Scattered; widely 
fpread. Copious; not concife. 
-DIFFU'SED, participial adj. This word feems to have 
Signified, in Shakejpeare’s time, the fame as wild, uncouth, 
irregular: 
He grows like favages, 
To fwearing and fiern looks, dfus’d attire, 
And every thing that feems unnatural. Henry V. 
DIFFU'SEDLY, adv. Widely; difperfedly; in man¬ 
ner of that which is fpread every way. 
DIFFU'SEDNESS, J. The Hate of being diffufed; 
difperfion. 
DIFFU'SELY, adv. Widely ; extenfively. Copiouf- 
ly ; not concifely. 
DIFFU'SION, f. -Difperfion; the date of being fcat- 
tered every way.—A fheet of very well fleeked marbled 
paper did not cad diflinft colours upon the wall, nor 
throw its light with an equal dijfnfion ; but threw its 
beams, undained and bright, to this and that part of the 
wall. Boyle. —Copioufnefs; exuberance of fiyle. 
DIFFU'SIVE, adj. Having the quality of fcattering 
any thing every way : 
Dijfufwe of themfelves, where’er they pafs 
They make that warmtli in others they expect: 
Their valour works like bodies on a glafs, 
And does its image on their men project. Dryden. 
Scattered ; difperfed ; having the quality of fuffering 
difiufion.—All liquid bodies are diffufve ; for their parts, 
being in motion, have no connection, but glide and fall 
off any way. Burnet. 
Cherifh’d with hope, and fed with joy, it grows; 
Its cheerful buds their opening bloom difclofe, 
And refund the happy foil diffufve odour flows. Prior. 
Extended.—They are notagreed among themfelves where 
infallibility is feated ; whether in the pope alone, or a 
council alone, or in both together, or in the diffufve body 
of Chriftians, Tillotf. 
DIFFU'SIVELY, adv. Widely; extenfively; everyway. 
DIFFU'SIVENESS, f. Extenfion; difperfion; the 
power of diffufing; the date of being ditfufed. Want 
ot concifenefs ; large compafs of expreffion.—The fault 
that I find with a modern legend, is its dffufvenefs: you 
have fometimes the whole fide of a medal over-run with 
i t. Addifon. 
To DIG, v. a. prefer, dug, or digged-, part. path, dug, 
ox digged: [bic, Sax. a ditch ; dyger, Dan. to dig.] To 
pierce withafpade.—Then laid he unto me, Son of man, 
dig now in the wall ; and when I had digged in the wall, 
I beheld a door. Ezekiel .—To form by digging.—He built 
towers in the defert, and digged many wells; for he had 
much cattle. 2 Chron. xxvi. 10.—Tocultivate the ground 
by turning it with a fpade : 
Be firft to dig the ground, be fird to burn 
The branches lopt. Dryden. 
To pierce with a fharp point : 
A rav’nous vulture in his open’d fide 
Her crooked beak and cruel talons tried ; 
Still for the growing liver digg’d his bread, 
The growing liver dill fupplied the fead. Dryden . 
D I G 
1 o gain by digging.—It is digged out of even the higheft 
mountains, and all parts of the earth contingently ; as 
the pyrites. Woodward. 
Nor was the ground alone requir’d to bear 
Her annual income to the crooked tliare ; 
But greedy mortals, rummaging her dore, 
Digg’d from her entrails fird the precious ore. Dryden. 
To DIG, v. n. To work with a fpade; to work in 
making holes, or turning the ground.—They long for 
death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for 
hid treafures. Job, iii. 21. 
To DIG up, v. a. To throw up that which is covered 
with earth : . 
It I digg’d up thy forefathers graves, 
And hung their rotten coffins up in chains, 
It would not flake mine ire. Shakefpeare. 
DIG, a town of Hindoodan, in the country of Mevvat : 
fixty-three miles fouth of Delhi. 
FilGAM'M A, J. [from on; and Gr. on account 
of its lhape.] A letter (in found like F) added to the 
Latin alphabet, by Claudius Ctefar : 
While tow’ring o’er your alphabet,- like Saul, 
Stands our digamma, and o’ertops them all. Pope. 
DI'GAMY, f. [fiya.g.\a, Gr.] Second marriage ; mar¬ 
riage to a fecond wife after the death of the fird : as bi¬ 
gamy, having two wives at once.—Dr. Champny only 
proves, that archbifliop Cranmer was twice married; 
which is not denied : but brings nothing to prove that 
fuch bigamy, or digamy rather, deprives a bilhop of the 
lawful ufe of his power of ordaining. Feme. 
DIGAS'TIIIC, adj. [ ^\ya.cf\^-/.o<;, of & j, twice, and 
yadhig, the belly, Gr.] That has a double belly. 
DIGAS'TRICUS,/. [from Kq, twice, and ya-dlnp, Gr. 
a belly.] Having two bellies. It is applied to the 
mufcle of the lower jaw. 
DIG'BY (Sir Kenelm), a celebrated Engliffi philofo- 
pher, born at Gothurd in Buckinghamlhire, in 1603. He 
was defeended of an ancient family : his great grandfa¬ 
ther, with fix of his brothers, fought valiantly at Bof- 
worth-field on the fide of Henry VII. againfl Richard 
III. His father, Everard, engaged in the gunpowder 
plot againfl James I. for which he was beheaded. His 
fon, however, was redored to his eflate ; and had after¬ 
wards feveral appointments under Charles I. Fie granted 
him letters of reprifal againfl the Venetians, from whom 
he took feveral prizes with a fmall fleet which he com¬ 
manded. He fought the Venetians near the port of 
Scanderoon, and bravely made his way through them 
with great booty. In the beginning of the civil wars, 
he exerted himfelf greatly in the king’s caufe ; infomuch 
that he was imprifoned, by order of the parliament ; but 
was fet at liberty in 1643. He afterward compounded 
for his edate ; but being- baniflied from England, he re¬ 
tired to France, and was fent on two embaffies to pope 
Innocent X. from the queen, widow to Charles I. whole 
chancellor he then was. On the refloration of Charles II. 
he returned to London ; where he died in 1665, at lixty- 
two years of age. He was a great lover of learning, and 
tranllated feveral authors into Englilh, as well as pub- 
liffied feveral works of his own; as, 1. Obfervations 
upon Dr. Brown’s. Religio Medici, 1643. 2, Obferva¬ 
tions on part of Spenfer’s Fairy Queen, 1644. 3. A 
Treatife of the Nature of Bodies, 1644. 4. A Treatifc 
declaring the Operations and Nature of Man’s Soul, out 
of which the Immortality of reafonable Souls is evinced .- 
works that difeover great penetration and extenfive 
knowledge. He applied much to chemidry ; and found 
out feveral ufeful medicines, which he didributed with 
a liberal hand. He particularly didinguiflied himfelf by 
his fympathetic powder for the cure of wounds at a dis¬ 
tance ; his difeourfe concerning which made great noife 
for a while, and certainly betrayed much credulity.. 
He held feveral conferences with Des Cartes, about the 
nature 
