to the mouth to be chewed again, after which it is swallowed into the third stomach whence it passes to
the fourth where it is finally digested.
Ruminantly
(Ru"mi*nant*ly) adv. In a ruminant manner; by ruminating, or chewing the cud.
Ruminate
(Ru"mi*nate) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ruminated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ruminating.] [L. ruminatus,
p. p. of ruminari, ruminare, fr. rumen, -inis, throat, akin to ructare to belch, erugere to belch out, Gr.
AS. roccettan.]
1. To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed. "Cattle free to ruminate."
Wordsworth.
2. Fig.: To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect. Cowper.
Apart from the hope of the gospel, who is there that ruminates on the felicity of heaven?
I. Taylor. Ruminate
(Ru"mi*nate) v. t.
1. To chew over again.
2. Fig.: To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin.
Dryden.
What I know
Is ruminated, plotted, and set down.
Shak. Ruminate
(Ru"mi*nate Ru"mi*na`ted) , a. (Bot.) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels
filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
Rumination
(Ru`mi*na"tion) n. [L. ruminatio: cf. F. rumination.]
1. 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. 2. The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder; deliberate meditation or reflection.
Retiring full of rumination sad.
Thomson. 3. (Physiol.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, — occasionally
observed as a morbid phenomenon in man.
Ruminative
(Ru"mi*na*tive) a. Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or meditation.
Ruminator
(Ru"mi*na`tor) n. [L.] One who ruminates or muses; a meditator.
Rumkin
(Rum"kin) n. [Cf. Rummer, and see -kin.] A popular or jocular name for a drinking vessel.
[Obs.]
Rummage
(Rum"mage) n. [For roomage, fr. room; hence originally, a making room, a packing away
closely. See Room.]
1. (Naut.) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling
and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; — formerly written romage. [Obs.]
