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The cud of a ruminant.

Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.

In a ruminant manner; by ruminating, or chewing the cud.

To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed. "Cattle free to ruminate." Wordsworth.

The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud. Rumination is given to animals to enable them at once to lay up a great store of food, and afterward to chew it. Arbuthnot.

ary; beneficial; as, salutiferous air. [R.] Innumerable powers, all of them salutiferous. Cudworth.

Of or pertaining to the habit of the body; constitutional. [Obs.] Cudworth.

To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle. With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to wake the baron. Sir W. Scott.

Room or space at sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or aground. Totten.

two other divine hypostases superior thereunto, which were perfectly secret from matter. Cudworth.

hers. They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions. Cudworth. In that throng of selfish hearts untrue. Keble.

The barracuda.

The character, quality, or state of a seraph; seraphicalness. [R.] Cudworth.

An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; -- so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks. [Irish] [Written also shillaly, and shillely.]

One who believes in a sibyl or the sibylline prophecies. Cudworth.

In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword.

To scour; to scud; to run. [Archaic]

To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace. Cudworth.

To move one way and the other so as to get a close place; to lie close for comfort; to cuddle; to nestle.

Skillful; clever; crafty. [Obs.] Cudworth.