Ingest \In*gest"\, v. t. [L. ingenium, p. p. of ingerere to put in; pref. in- in + gerere to bear.] 1. To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal. --Sir T. Browne.
2. To take into the body by any means, as by inhalation, injection, absorption, as well as through the mouth. [PJC]
At that level, a young child would have to eat at least 2,000 grapes to ingest a lethal dose, he said.
"These people knew they were selling items used to ingest drugs.
"Drifting balloons can find their way into many of the open-air enclosures and can cause great harm, even death, to unsuspecting animals who might ingest them," the Rocky Mountain Humane Society wrote in a Feb. 6 letter to the zoo.
They hope those animals, unlike bass and alligators, do not eat enough fish to ingest dangerous amounts of mercury _ but they say no one expected to find mercury in the first place.
Biologist Esther Burket said oil coming ashore on a sandy beach would be less harmful than in an estuary such as Bolsa Chica, where birds would ingest the petroleum with the plants they eat.
He has said the government endangered Barry's health by allowing him to ingest the drugs.
But the Chicago-based ADA said Tuesday the public should not fear sodium fluoride because humans ingest much smaller amounts of the chemical.
They ingest the chemical both from the insects they eat and from directly eating small pellets of the chemical.
In the drug trade, they're known as swallowers or mules _ drug carriers who ingest condoms packed with cocaine or heroin.