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• MASTICABLE
  Capable of being masticated.
• MASTICATION
  The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food. Mastication is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion. Arbuthnot.
• MASTICATE
  To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.
• MASTICATOR
  1. One who masticates. 2. A machine for cutting meat into fine pieces for toothless people; also, a machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture.
• MASTICOT
  Massicot.
• MASTICIN
  A white, amorphous, tenacious substance resembling caoutchouc, and obtained as an insoluble residue of mastic.
• MASTICATER
  One who masticates.
• MASTICH
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• MASTICATORY
  Chewing; adapted to perform the office o
• MASTIC
  A low shrubby tree of the genus Pistacia , growing upon the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean, and producing a valuable resin; -- called also, mastic tree. 2. A resin exuding from the mastic tree, and obtained by incision. The best is in
• REMASTICATION
  The act of masticating or chewing again or repeatedly.
• DOCIMASTIC
  Proving by experiments or tests. Docimastic art, metallurgy, or the art of assaying metals; the art of separating metals from foreign matters, and determining the nature and quantity of metallic substances contained in any ore or mineral.
• DOKIMASTIC
  Docimastic.
• PARONOMASTIC; PARONOMASTICAL
  Of or pertaining to paronomasia; consisting in a play upon words.
• ANTONOMASTIC
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, antonomasia. -- An`to*no*mas"tic*al*ly, adv.
• ONOMASTICON
  A collection of names and terms; a dictionary; specif., a collection of Greek names, with explanatory notes, made by Julius Pollux about A.D.180.
• ONOMASTIC
  Applied to a signature when the body of the instrument is in another's handwriting. Burrill.
• REMASTICATE
  To chew or masticate again; to chew over and over, as the cud.
• ANIMASTIC
  Pertaining to mind or spirit; spiritual.