Definition of digests:
(v) :
(transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
(v) :
(transitive) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
(v) :
(transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
(v) :
(intransitive) To undergo digestion.
(n) :
That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.
(n) :
Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.