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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.…

One who chews.

A kind of meat pie. [Obs.]

An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin.

g wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of. They must not only eschew evil, but do good. Bp. Beveridge.

One who eschews.

The act of eschewing. [R.]

The European polecat (Putorius foetidus). See Polecat.

A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime.

A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. I is a woody climber with ovate manynerved leaves.

The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.

tic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

erican Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.

To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.

To chew. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Sir T. More.

To bite or chew impatiently. They began . . . irefully to champ upon the bit. Hooker.

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.

lterant of which it is used in England. It is used largely in the United States in making chewing gum.

To chew loudly and greedily; to champ. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] Halliwell.

en not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillæ) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils.