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; RUMINATED
Ru"mi*nate, Ru"mi*na`ted, a. (Bot.)
Defn: 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. Etym: [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.)
Defn: The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, — occasionally oberved as a morbid phenomenon in man.
RUMINATIVE
Ru"mi*na*tive, a.