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Brewer's: Ruminate
(3 syl.). To think, to meditate upon some subject; properly, “to chew the cud” (Latin, rumino).
“To chew the cud of sweet and bitter fancy.”
Milton.
“On a flowery bank he chews the cud.” —Dryden.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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