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Rumination   /rˌumɪnˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Rumination  n.  
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."
2.
The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder; deliberate meditation or reflection. "Retiring full of rumination sad."
3.
(Physiol.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man.





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"Rumination" Quotes from Famous Books



... the partition and a sound of chairs scraping the floor. Patsy slid out the door and flew down the stairs at the imminent danger of breaking her neck. James was seated in the buggy outside, engaged in rumination. ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work • Edith Van Dyne
... not easily follow us. There, while we halted to rest a little, we heard a shout now and then rise startling from the field of battle below; but night coming on, all was soon silent, and we sat, in the holiness of our mountain-refuge, in silent rumination till the moon, rolling slowly from behind Arthur's Seat, looked from her window in the clouds, as if to admonish us to flee farther from ...
— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt
... library table to one town—the library chairs to another—seemed very like selling a family of slaves to different masters; so, after a cursory glance at the dwelling, we betook ourselves in solitary rumination to the banks of the river. And a quiet, steady, calm, respectable kind of river the Usk is—not of the high aristocratic appearance of the Wye, with wild outbursts of youthful petulance softened immediately into grace and elegance—but a sedate individual, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various
... heart beats to the respirations is about 1:4 or 1:5. This ratio is not constant in ruminants. Rumination, muscular exertion and excitement increase the frequency and cause the respirations to become irregular. In disease the ratio between the heart beats and respirations is greatly disturbed, and the character ...
— Common Diseases of Farm Animals • R. A. Craig, D. V. M.
... regular and powerful when not liable to interruption from the operations of the ganglionic nerves, and the visceral functions presided over by them. When the boa-constrictor digests, he falls into a state of torpor that exceeds in degree, but not in kind, the drowsy rumination of a cow chewing her cud. Such animals are slaves to their nutritive functions, by which those of the brain and spinal cord may at any time be, as it were, oppressed and overwhelmed. The capacity for independence ...
— The Education of American Girls • Anna Callender Brackett


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