Chew+the+cud
101masticate — v 1. chew, crunch, craunch, munch, champ, mumble, gnaw, nibble, bite, Dial. chaw, Archaic. manducate; chew well, Fletcherize; ruminate, remasticate, rechew, chew the cud. 2. pulverize, comminute, triturate, levigate, powder, granulate, break down …
102ru´mi|nat´ing|ly — ru|mi|nate «ROO muh nayt», verb, nat|ed, nat|ing. –v.i. 1. to chew the cud. 2. Figurative. to think or ponder; meditate; reflect: »I ruminated on the strange events of the past week. Mr. Wendover…stood gloomily ruminating in front of the …
103ru|mi|nate — «ROO muh nayt», verb, nat|ed, nat|ing. –v.i. 1. to chew the cud. 2. Figurative. to think or ponder; meditate; reflect: »I ruminated on the strange events of the past week. Mr. Wendover…stood gloomily ruminating in front of the …
104Ruminate — Ru mi*nate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ruminated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ruminating}.] [L. ruminatus, p. p. of ruminari, ruminare, fr. rumen, inis, throat, akin to ructare to belch, erugere to belch out, Gr. ?, AS. roccettan.] 1. To chew the cud; to chew… …
105Ruminated — Ruminate Ru mi*nate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ruminated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ruminating}.] [L. ruminatus, p. p. of ruminari, ruminare, fr. rumen, inis, throat, akin to ructare to belch, erugere to belch out, Gr. ?, AS. roccettan.] 1. To chew the cud;… …
106Ruminating — Ruminate Ru mi*nate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ruminated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ruminating}.] [L. ruminatus, p. p. of ruminari, ruminare, fr. rumen, inis, throat, akin to ructare to belch, erugere to belch out, Gr. ?, AS. roccettan.] 1. To chew the cud;… …
107contemplate — Synonyms and related words: aim, anticipate, be abstracted, bear in mind, behold, bone, brood, brood over, chew over, chew the cud, con, consider, debate, deliberate, deliberate over, design, dig, digest, dread, drift, drill, elucubrate,… …
108ruminant — I. noun Date: 1661 a ruminant mammal II. adjective Date: 1691 1. a. (1) chewing the cud (2) characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed b. of or relating to two suborders (Ruminantia and Tylopoda) of herbivorous even toed hoofed… …
109deliberate — Synonyms and related words: advise with, advised, aforethought, aimed, aimed at, air, ambling, analyze, back down, balance, bargain, be abstracted, brood, brood over, calculated, call in, calm, canny, canvass, careful, cautious, chaw, chew over,… …
110study — Synonyms and related words: Nachtmusik, Pap test, Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absolute music, absorbed attention, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, academic discipline, academic specialty, adaptation, advisement, aim, air, air varie,… …
