intransitive verb. To turn a matter over and over in the mind.

intransitive verb. To chew cud.

intransitive verb. To reflect on over and over again.

To chew the cud, as a ruminant; practise rumination.

To muse; meditate; think again and again; ponder: as, to ruminate on misfortunes.

To chew again.

To turn over in the mind; muse on; meditate over and over.

In botany, appearing as if chewed: noting a structure of the endosperm (albumen) of a seed which gives a mottled appearance to its section, and which results from the infolding of a dark inner layer of the seed-coat into the lighter-colored matter of the endosperm, as in the nutmeg.

adjective. Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.

transitive verb. To chew over again.

transitive verb. To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.

intransitive verb. To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed.

intransitive verb. To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect.

verb. To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.

verb. To meditate or reflect.

adjective. Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.

verb. chew the cuds

verb. reflect deeply on a subject

"Again the word "rumination" suggestions an oddly somatic association: to ruminate is to turn over in mind and mouth (as in: chewing the cud)."