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o, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor. Rum bud, a grog blossom. [Colloq.] -- Rum shrub, a drink composed of rum, water, sugar, and lime juice or lemon juice, with some flavoring extract.

To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance. In the mean while the skies 'gan rumble sore. Surrey. The people cried and rombled up and down. Chaucer.

One who, or that which, rumbles.

a. & n. from Rumble, v. i.

In a rumbling manner.

grog. [Obs.] Sir W. Scott.

Same as Rombowline.

The first stomach of ruminants; the paunch; the fardingbag. See Illust. below.

A yellow crystalline substance found in the root of yellow dock (Rumex crispus) and identical with chrysophanic acid.

Ruminant; ruminating. [R.]

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

A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies.

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

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

Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.

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.

Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or meditation.

One who ruminates or muses; a meditator.

A popular or jocular name for a drinking vessel. [Obs.]

carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over. He has such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony. Walpole. Rummage sale, a clearance sale of unclaimed goods in a public store, or of odds and ends which have accumulated in a shop. Simmonds.