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The act of masticating or chewing again or repeatedly.

Asphaltic mastic or cement. See Asphalt, 2.

To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit. The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood. Surrey.

To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.

A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis).

odwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (L. fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (L. hæmastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.

One of the double teeth, used to grind or masticate the food; a molar.

om the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself. [Written also kawa, kava, and ava.]

A tree; the mastic. See Mastic.

To masticate; to chew; to eat. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

The large muscle which raises the under jaw, and assists in mastication.

A gelatinous compound of linseed oil and mastic varnish, used by artists as a vehicle for colors. [Written also magilp, and magilph.]

A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.

The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See .

See Pan, the masticatory.

name of a genus of trees, including the tree which bears the pistachio, the Mediterranean mastic tree (Pistacia Lentiscus), and the species (P. Terebinthus) which yields Chian or Cyprus turpentine.

nake (Zoöl.), the massasauga. -- Prairie snake (Zoöl.), a large harmless American snake (Masticophis flavigularis). It is pale yellow, tinged with brown above. -- Prairie squirrel (Zoöl.), any American ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus, inhabiting prairies; -- called also gopher. -- Prairie turnip (Bot.), th…

ation; -- called also spotted lens. -- Spot rump (Zoöl.), the Hudsonian godwit (Limosa hæmastica). -- Spots on the sun. (Astron.) See Sun spot, ander Sun. -- On, or Upon, the spot, immediately; before moving; without changing place. It was determined upon the spot. Swift.

of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food.

e Melanorrhoea usitatissima, a tall East Indian tree of the Cashew family. See Copal, and Mastic.