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Ruʹminate (3 syl.)

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To think, to meditate upon some subject; properly, “to chew the cud” (Latin, ruʹmino).

“To chew the cud of sweet and bitter fancy.”—Milton.


“On a flowery bank he chews the cud.”—Dryden.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Rule of the Road (The)
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