Chewing

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  chew \chew\ (ch[udd]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chewed} (ch[udd]d);
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Chewing}.] [As ce['o]wan, akin to D. kauwen,
     G. kauen. Cf. {Chaw}, {Jaw}.]
     1. To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.
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     2. To ruminate mentally; to meditate on.
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              He chews revenge, abjuring his offense. --Prior.
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     {To chew the cud}, to chew the food over again, as a cow; to
        ruminate; hence, to meditate.
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              Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the
              cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the
              beasts, that ye shall eat.            --Deut. xxiv.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  chewing \chewing\ n.
     biting your food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to
     swallow.
  
     Syn: chew, mastication.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  chewing
       n : biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft
           enough to swallow [syn: {chew}, {mastication}, {manduction}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "chewing":
     appetite, ass-reaming, bawling-out, cannibalism, carnivorism,
     carnivority, carnivorousness, chain-smoke, consumption, cropping,
     cud-chewing, cussing-out, deglutition, devouring, devourment,
     dieting, dining, drag, dressing, dressing-down, eating, epulation,
     feasting, feeding, gluttony, gobbling, going-over, grazing,
     habitual smoking, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness,
     hunger, ingestion, jacking-up, licking, manducation, manducatory,
     mastication, masticatory, messing, munching, nibbling,
     nicotine addiction, nicotinic, nicotinism, nutrition, omnivorism,
     omnivorousness, omophagy, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking,
     puff, raking-down, reaming, reaming-out, regalement, relishing,
     roasting, ruminant, ruminating, rumination, savoring, setdown,
     smoke, smoking, smoking habit, snuffy, speaking-to, tabacism,
     tabacosis, tabagism, talking-to, tasting, tobacco, tobaccoism,
     tobaccolike, tobaccoy, vegetarianism, what-for, wolfing