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islands and coasts of the Mediterranean, and producing a valuable resin; -- called also, mastic tree.

Capable of being masticated.

A part of a bridle, the slavering bit. [Written also mastigador.]

ush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.

One who masticates.

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.

One who masticates.

Chewing; adapted to perform the office o

See Mastic.

phous, tenacious substance resembling caoutchouc, and obtained as an insoluble residue of mastic.

Massicot. [Obs.]

Pertaining to mind or spirit; spiritual.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, antonomasia. -- An`to*no*mas"tic*al*ly, adv.

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.

Docimastic.

Applied to a signature when the body of the instrument is in another's handwriting. Burrill.

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.

Gradually decreasing; past the acme, or crisis, as a distemper. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to paronomasia; consisting in a play upon words.

To chew or masticate again; to chew over and over, as the cud.