cud /ˈkʌd, ||ˈkʊd ||ˈkud/
嚼煙,反芻物(v.)細想,玩味
cud /ˈkəd, ˈkʊd/ 名詞
瘤胃,(反芻時的)食團
Cud n.
1. That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.
Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. --Levit. xi. 3
2. A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid. [Low]
3. The first stomach of ruminating beasts.
To chew the cud, to ruminate; to meditate; used with of; as, to chew the cud of bitter memories.
Chewed the thrice turned cud of wrath. --Tennyson.
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cud
n 1: food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again [syn: rechewed
food]
2: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw,
quid, plug, wad]