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noun

Rumination n.

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."

The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder; deliberate meditation or reflection. "Retiring full of rumination sad."

(Physiol.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man.

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Etymology of 'Rumination'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rumination" Quotes from Famous Books

... of eating so much indigestible bark, first one, then another, "lost her cud," that is, was unable to raise her food for rumination at night; and as cattle must ruminate, we soon had several ...

— A Busy Year at the Old Squire's • Charles Asbury Stephens

... 1. Ruminatio. In the rumination of horned cattle the retrograde motions of the oesophagus are visible to the eye, as they bring up the softened grass from their first stomach. The vegetable aliment in the first stomach of cattle, which have filled themselves too full of young clover, is liable ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... him away through the thinning crowd, sitting his saddle stolidly, in an attitude of rumination. When the blue cap had vanished behind the blazing corner of the wool dyers, he threw the reins to his Sudanese stirrup boy and got down to the ground. He took his son's hand. So, palm in palm, at a grave pace, they walked back under the arch into the city. The market-going ...

— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various

Words linked to "Rumination" : contemplation, vomiting, emesis, reflection, study, consideration, disgorgement, chewing, speculation, chew, retrospect, vomit, mastication, self-examination, regurgitation, musing, cogitation, meditation, manduction, introspection, thoughtfulness