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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.

nate 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.…

Mass of clouds; cloudiness. [R.] A scudding cloudage of shapes. Coleridge.

A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel. But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs; Rome and her rats are at the point of battle. Shak.

ayers; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.

The quality of being cognoscible. Cudworth.

Having the power of knowing. [Obs.] "An innate cognoscitive power." Cudworth.

The quality of being conceivable; conceivableness. Cudworth.

Materialism. Cudworth.

Worship paid to the world. Cudworth.

See Cudweed.

A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick. [Obs.] Garrick.

A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the carb tree.

t elaborated or refined. "Crass and fumid exhalations." Sir. T. Browne. "Crass ignorance" Cudworth.

To make like a creature; to degrade [Obs.] Degrade and creaturize that mundane soul. Cudworth.

To cower or cuddle together, as from fear or cold; to lie close and snug together, as pigs in straw. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. Forby. A dove to fly home her nest and croodle there. C. Kingsley.

Destruction; -- opposed to creation. [R.] Cudworth.

Of or pertaining to a demon. [Obs.] Cudworth.

some over-severe phoilosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate. Cudworth. To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself. Burke.

Diminution of swelling; subsidence of anything swollen. [R.] Cudworth.