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Definition of Masticates
1. masticate [v] - See also: masticate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Masticates
Literary usage of Masticates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Feeding Animals: A Practical Work Upon the Laws of Animal Growth, Specially by Elliot W. Stewart (1883)
"When the horse masticates the meal he also masticates the hay, and the whole goes
into the stomach together. This seems to be in imitation of nature, ..."
2. How to Feed the Dairy Cow: Breeding and Feeding Dairy Cattle by Hugh G. Van Pelt (1919)
"When she eats she masticates her food very little, swallowing most of it whole.
When she finds time she regurgitates and masticates it. ..."
3. Proceedings by National Speech Arts Association (1893)
"It cries and laughs with emotion as well as articulates and masticates as a vital
function. We will employ this theory of pivotal points throughout onr ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1877)
"We doubt if the average young idea masticates two primers a year, but there are
no authoritative ..."
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