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Word Meanings - CHEW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate. 2. To ruminate mentally; to meditate on. He chews revenge, abjuring his offense. Prior. To chew the cud, to chew the food ocer again, as a cow; to ruminate; hence, to meditate. Every beast the

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1. To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate. 2. To ruminate mentally; to meditate on. He chews revenge, abjuring his offense. Prior. To chew the cud, to chew the food ocer again, as a cow; to ruminate; hence, to meditate. 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. 6.

Related words: (words related to CHEW)

  • BEASTLIHEAD
    Beastliness. Spenser.
  • GRINDSTONE
    A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
  • GRINDLE STONE
    A grindstone.
  • BEASTLIKE
    Like a beast.
  • GRINDLET
    A small drain.
  • AGAINSTAND
    To withstand.
  • PRIORSHIP
    The state or office of prior; priorate.
  • EVERYWHERENESS
    Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
  • EVERYWHERE
    In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
  • OFFENSELESS
    Unoffending; inoffensive.
  • BEASTLINESS
    The state or quality of being beastly.
  • AGAINSAY
    To gainsay. Wyclif.
  • GRINDINGLY
    In a grinding manner.
  • BEASTINGS
    See BIESTINGS
  • RUMINATE; RUMINATED
    Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
  • MEDITATE
    To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect. Jer. Taylor. In his law doth he meditate day and night. Ps. i. 2.
  • AGAIN
    again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again,
  • GRINDERY
    Leather workers' materials. Grindery warehouse, a shop where leather workers' materials and tools are kept on sale.
  • ABJUREMENT
    Renunciation.
  • REVENGEFUL
    Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak. Syn. -- Vindictive; vengeful; resentful; malicious.
  • THEREAGAIN
    In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
  • ALIMENTALLY
    So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.
  • HEREHENCE
    From hence.
  • WHENCEFORTH
    From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
  • SUBPRIOR
    The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
  • THENCEFROM
    From that place.
  • SENTIMENTALLY
    In a sentimental manner.

 

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