| 单词 | to chew the cud |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto chew the cud 4. to chew the cud: extracted from chewv. a. of certain quadrupeds, to bring back into the mouth and masticate the food which has been coarsely bruised and swallowed into a first stomach; to ruminate.In Old English the simple céowan is so used; the Ayenb. has eftchyewe. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Bovinae (bovine) > [verb (intransitive)] > chew cud to chew the cudc1000 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Bovinae (bovine) > [verb (transitive)] > chew the cud to chew the cudc1000 c1000 Ælfric Leviticus xi. 3 Ðæt hig eton þa nytenu þe hira clawe todælede beoþ and ceowaþ. Ne ete ge þa þing þe ceowaþ, and clawe ne todælaþ. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1236 Oxe chewweþþ..Hiss cude. a1300 Cursor Mundi 1958 O beist has clouen fote in tua An chewand cude, ȝee ete o þaa. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 86 Efterward me ssel þesne mete eft chyewe ase þe oxe þet gers þet he heþ vorzuelȝe. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. xi. 3 Alle that han the clee dyuydid, and chewith kude. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 16 Like so many Ginny-Pigs, munching and chewing the cud. 1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xvi. 265 The cattle..stood listlessly chewing their cuds. b. figurative. To ‘ruminate’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > think about, consider [verb (intransitive)] thinkOE thinkOE bethinka1200 umthinka1300 to have mind ofc1300 casta1340 studya1375 delivera1382 to chew the cudc1384 to take advisementa1393 stema1400 compassc1400 advisec1405 deliberc1405 to make it wisec1405 to take deliberationc1405 enter?a1413 riddlec1426 hovec1440 devise?c1450 to study by (also in) oneself?c1450 considerc1460 porec1500 regard1523 deliberate1543 to put on one's thinking or considering cap1546 contemplate1560 consult1565 perpend1568 vise1568 to consider of1569 weigh1573 ruminate1574 dascanc1579 to lay to (one's) heart1588 pondera1593 debate1594 reflect1596 comment1597 perponder1599 revolvea1600 rumine1605 consider on, upon1606 to think twice1623 reflex1631 spell1645 ponderatea1652 to turn about1725 to cast a thought, a reflection upon1736 to wake over1771 incubatea1847 mull1857 fink1888 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Hosea vii. 14 Thei chewiden cud vpon whete, and wijne, and departiden fro me. 1547 Certain Serm. or Homilies Exhort. Holy Script. ii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) i.15 Let vs ruminate, and (as it were) chewe the cudde that wee maye haue the sweete iewse..& consolation of them. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. iii. 184 Having left her a little while to chew the Cud (if I may use that Expression) on these first Tidings. View more context for this quotation 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 196 I shall for some time continue to chew the cud of reflection. 1829 R. Southey Oliver Newman vii And in all outward patience chew the while The cud of bitter thoughts. 1876 Maxwell in Life xiv. 1880 R. Broughton Second Thoughts I. i. xii. 204 She is dismally chewing the cud of sour reflection. < as lemmas |
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