mastication
- n biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
- Such are his abnormal digestive powers, that after only partial mastication, he will regurgitate each exotic titbit in a form but slightly distorted in the process .
- In the interests of more mannerly mastication, the manufacturers have even prescribed a code of gummanship (cardinal rule: never chew when addressing your elders), plan to .
- Unaccustomed to normal mastication, these fastidious trenchermen will swill too much and too abruptly and die off in short order.