Definition of Cud

Pronunciation: kŭd
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.
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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bite, bolus, cavendish, champ, chaw, chew, chewing tobacco, chomp, cut plug, eating tobacco, fid, gnash, gob, morsel, mouthful, munch, navy, navy plug, nibble, nip, pigtail, quid, snap, swallow, tobacco juice, twist

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