Chewing

chewing
    n 1: biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft
         enough to swallow [syn: {chew}, {chewing}, {mastication},
         {manduction}]
    

chew \chew\ (ch[udd]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chewed} (ch[udd]d);
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Chewing}.] [As ce['o]wan, akin to D. kauwen,
   G. kauen. Cf. {Chaw}, {Jaw}.]
   1. To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To ruminate mentally; to meditate on.
      [1913 Webster]

            He chews revenge, abjuring his offense. --Prior.
      [1913 Webster]

   {To chew the cud}, to chew the food over again, as a cow; to
      ruminate; hence, to meditate.
      [1913 Webster]

            Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the
            cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the
            beasts, that ye shall eat.            --Deut. xxiv.
                                                  6.
      [1913 Webster]
    

chewing \chewing\ n.
   biting your food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to
   swallow.

   Syn: chew, mastication.
        [WordNet 1.5]
    

83 Moby Thesaurus words for "chewing":
      appetite, ass-reaming, bawling-out, cannibalism, carnivorism,
      carnivority, carnivorousness, chain-smoke, consumption, cropping,
      cud-chewing, cussing-out, deglutition, devouring, devourment,
      dieting, dining, drag, dressing, dressing-down, eating, epulation,
      feasting, feeding, gluttony, gobbling, going-over, grazing,
      habitual smoking, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness,
      hunger, ingestion, jacking-up, licking, manducation, manducatory,
      mastication, masticatory, messing, munching, nibbling,
      nicotine addiction, nicotinic, nicotinism, nutrition, omnivorism,
      omnivorousness, omophagy, pantophagy, pasture, pasturing, pecking,
      puff, raking-down, reaming, reaming-out, regalement, relishing,
      roasting, ruminant, ruminating, rumination, savoring, setdown,
      smoke, smoking, smoking habit, snuffy, speaking-to, tabacism,
      tabacosis, tabagism, talking-to, tasting, tobacco, tobaccoism,
      tobaccolike, tobaccoy, vegetarianism, what-for, wolfing