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- (transitive) To swallow food without chewing it.
- eat hastily without proper chewing
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- (intransitive, botany, of lettuce, spinach, garlic, onion, etc) To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
- (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
- (transitive, figurative) To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.
- (transitive) To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- (intransitive) To escape.
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- (transitive) To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
- make or roll into bolts
- leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
- secure or lock with a bolt
- run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
- move or jump suddenly
- swallow hastily
- (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt. (See thunderbolt.)
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
- a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
- a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length
- a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
- a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
- a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
- the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
- the act of moving with great haste
- eat hastily without proper chewing
- make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys
- (ambitransitive) Of a turkey, to make its characteristic vocalisation; also, used of certain other birds.
- (ambitransitive) To make the sound of a turkey.
- To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
- the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
- (Scotland, slang, vulgar) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- The sound of a turkey; or, a similar vocalisation of another bird.
- (rare) An act of eating hastily or greedily.
- (golf) A rapid straight putt so strongly played that, if the ball had not gone into the hole, it would have gone a long way past.
- chew noisily or vigorously
- chafe at the bit, like horses
- To camp overnight in a historic church as a novelty or part of a holiday.
- (ambitransitive) To bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently.
- (informal) To act or behave like a champ; to endure. [with it or up]
- (heraldry) To set (a surface) with a champ (a contrasting field or background). [with with]
- To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
- grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty
- To stiffen with glue or gum.
- (sometimes with together) To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
- (transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
- (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
- (colloquial, with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
- cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum
- become sticky
- exude or form gum
- (US, dialect, Southern US) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
- A gum tree, any of various types of trees or an individual thereof.
- (chiefly uncountable) Chewing gum.
- (US, dialect) A rubber overshoe.
- (countable) A single piece of chewing gum.
- (US, dialect, Southern US) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
- (chiefly uncountable) Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.
- (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.
- (South Africa, often in the plural) A gummi candy.
- (botany, biochemistry, chiefly uncountable) A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate.
- any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum
- any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
- a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
- wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum
- the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth
- cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
- The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
- biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
- (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
- (uncountable, informal) The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
- Level of chewiness.
- A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
- (countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
- (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
- To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
- To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
- the act of swallowing
- any liquid suitable for drinking
- a single serving of a beverage
- any large deep body of water
- the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
- Alcoholic beverages in general.
- A type of beverage (usually mixed).
- A standard drink.
- (informal) Amount.
- (uncountable) Drinks in general; something to drink.
- A (served) alcoholic beverage.
- The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
- A beverage.
- (Australia, figurative) A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.
- (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
- consume alcohol
- be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to
- propose a toast to
- drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic
- take in liquids
- (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
- (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
- (ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
- (transitive, metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
- Used in phrasal verbs: drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.
- (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
- the act of swallowing
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
- small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
- a small amount of liquid food
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing, commonly paired and eaten with various types of soup.
- (nautical) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
- engulf and destroy
- keep from expressing
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- take back what one has said
- utter unclearly
- believe or accept without questioning or challenge
- (intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- (transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
- (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- (transitive) To retract; to recant.
- (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
- To swallow.
- To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person).
- To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue.
- To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding.
- To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.
- To lower an item of clothing without removing it.
- To arrest someone or to place them in detention.
- To remove something from a hanging position.
- To remove something from a website.
- (transitive) To reduce.
- (combat sports) To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc.
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- make a written note of
- chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
- talk incessantly and tiresomely
- censure severely or angrily
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- (intransitive, informal) To talk; to converse.
- (Scotland, transitive, of water) To splash; to surge.
- (Scotland, transitive) To pour or throw out.
- (snooker, transitive, intransitive) (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
- (transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.
- (intransitive) To scold; to clamor.
- the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth
- the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
- holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object
- (nautical) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
- A notch or opening.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A dash or spurt of water; any large quantity of water or other liquid.
- (figuratively, especially in the plural) Anything resembling the jaw (sense 1) of an animal in form or action; the mouth or way of entrance.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A wave, a billow, a breaker.
- The part of the face below the mouth.
- (slang) An axle guard.
- (snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
- One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
- A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
- One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them.
- (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
- (transitive) To speak; to utter.
- (sheep husbandry) To examine the teeth of.
- To exit at a mouth (such as a river mouth)
- To form a mouth or opening in.
- To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
- (ambitransitive) To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.
- To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
- (transitive) To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but silently, without producing sound; to frame.
- (figurative) Ellipsis of mouth the words; to speak insincerely.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound.
- To carry in the mouth.
- express in speech
- articulate silently; form words with the lips only
- touch with the mouth
- (anatomy) The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
- (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
- (slang) A gossip.
- An outlet, aperture or orifice.
- (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
- The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.
- the opening of a jar or bottle
- an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge)
- a person conceived as a consumer of food
- the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening
- a spokesperson (as a lawyer)
- the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge
- the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water
- an impudent or insolent rejoinder
- (UK, colloquial) Pound sterling. (usually only used with a whole number of pounds)
- (historical) A sovereign or guinea, that is, a certain coin or amount of money.
- A piece of material for chewing, especially chewing tobacco.
- (US, colloquial) The act of chewing such tobacco.
- (Commonwealth, colloquial, by extension, rare) Dollar, dollars.
- (Ireland, colloquial, by extension) Euro.
- (Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial, historical) Various national currencies typically known by the name "pound".
- Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something else.
- The inherent nature of something.
- (US, historical) A member of a section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811, following John Randolph of Roanoke. (From tertium quid.)
- something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something they do or give or promise
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- To make (one's way) through or while taking small bites.
- To make (a hole in something) through small bites.
- Chiefly followed by into or to: to cause (something) to be in a certain state through small bites.
- Chiefly followed by at, away, or on: to take a small, quick bite, or several of such bites; to eat (at frequent intervals) with small, quick bites.
- Chiefly followed by at: to show slight interest in something, such as a commercial opportunity or a proposal.
- To remove (small pieces) from glass, tile, etc., with a tool; also, to remove small pieces from (glass, tile, etc.) with a tool.
- To take a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, of (something).
- Followed by away at: to reduce or use up gradually; to eat.
- To lightly bite (a person or animal, or part of their body), especially in a loving or playful manner; to nip.
- (road transport) Synonym of tramline (“of a vehicle: to tend to follow the contours of the ground with its wheels”).
- (cricket, informal) Followed by at: of a batter: to make an indecisive attempt to bat a ball bowled outside the off stump.
- To lightly bite, especially in a loving or playful manner.
- Followed by away, off, etc.: to remove (something) through small bites.
- bite off very small pieces
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- bite gently
- (figurative) A slight show of interest in something, such as a commercial opportunity or a proposal.
- An act of taking a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, especially with the front teeth; the bite or bites so taken.
- (computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or chiefly four bits.
- A light bite of a person or animal, or part of their body, especially one which is loving or playful; a nip.
- An amount of food that is or can be taken into the mouth through a small bite; a small mouthful.
- gentle biting
- a small byte
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- The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
- biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
- (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
- (uncountable, informal) The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
- Level of chewiness.
- A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
- (countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
- (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
- To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
- To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
- the act of swallowing
- any liquid suitable for drinking
- a single serving of a beverage
- any large deep body of water
- the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
- Alcoholic beverages in general.
- A type of beverage (usually mixed).
- A standard drink.
- (informal) Amount.
- (uncountable) Drinks in general; something to drink.
- A (served) alcoholic beverage.
- The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
- A beverage.
- (Australia, figurative) A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.
- (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
- consume alcohol
- be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to
- propose a toast to
- drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic
- take in liquids
- (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
- (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
- (ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
- (transitive, metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
- Used in phrasal verbs: drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.
- (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
- the act of swallowing
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
- small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
- a small amount of liquid food
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing, commonly paired and eaten with various types of soup.
- (nautical) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
- engulf and destroy
- keep from expressing
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- take back what one has said
- utter unclearly
- believe or accept without questioning or challenge
- (intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- (transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
- (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- (transitive) To retract; to recant.
- (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
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- (transitive) To swallow food without chewing it.
- eat hastily without proper chewing
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- (intransitive, botany, of lettuce, spinach, garlic, onion, etc) To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
- (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
- (transitive, figurative) To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.
- (transitive) To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- (intransitive) To escape.
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- (transitive) To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
- make or roll into bolts
- leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
- secure or lock with a bolt
- run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
- move or jump suddenly
- swallow hastily
- (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt. (See thunderbolt.)
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
- a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
- a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length
- a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
- a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
- a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
- the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
- the act of moving with great haste
- eat hastily without proper chewing
- make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys
- (ambitransitive) Of a turkey, to make its characteristic vocalisation; also, used of certain other birds.
- (ambitransitive) To make the sound of a turkey.
- To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
- the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
- (Scotland, slang, vulgar) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- The sound of a turkey; or, a similar vocalisation of another bird.
- (rare) An act of eating hastily or greedily.
- (golf) A rapid straight putt so strongly played that, if the ball had not gone into the hole, it would have gone a long way past.
- chew noisily or vigorously
- chafe at the bit, like horses
- To camp overnight in a historic church as a novelty or part of a holiday.
- (ambitransitive) To bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently.
- (informal) To act or behave like a champ; to endure. [with it or up]
- (heraldry) To set (a surface) with a champ (a contrasting field or background). [with with]
- To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
- grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty
- To stiffen with glue or gum.
- (sometimes with together) To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
- (transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
- (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
- (colloquial, with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
- cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum
- become sticky
- exude or form gum
- (US, dialect, Southern US) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
- A gum tree, any of various types of trees or an individual thereof.
- (chiefly uncountable) Chewing gum.
- (US, dialect) A rubber overshoe.
- (countable) A single piece of chewing gum.
- (US, dialect, Southern US) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
- (chiefly uncountable) Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.
- (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.
- (South Africa, often in the plural) A gummi candy.
- (botany, biochemistry, chiefly uncountable) A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate.
- any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum
- any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
- a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
- wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum
- the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth
- cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
- To swallow.
- To defeat; to destroy or kill (a person).
- To write down as a note, especially to record something spoken.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To collapse or become incapacitated from illness or fatigue.
- To remove a temporary structure such as scaffolding.
- To remove something from a wall or similar vertical surface to which it is fixed.
- To lower an item of clothing without removing it.
- To arrest someone or to place them in detention.
- To remove something from a hanging position.
- To remove something from a website.
- (transitive) To reduce.
- (combat sports) To force one’s opponent off their feet in order to transition from striking to grappling in jujitsu, mixed martial arts, etc.
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- make a written note of
- The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
- biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
- (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
- (uncountable, informal) The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
- Level of chewiness.
- A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
- (countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
- (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
- To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
- To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
- chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
- talk incessantly and tiresomely
- censure severely or angrily
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- (intransitive, informal) To talk; to converse.
- (Scotland, transitive, of water) To splash; to surge.
- (Scotland, transitive) To pour or throw out.
- (snooker, transitive, intransitive) (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
- (transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.
- (intransitive) To scold; to clamor.
- the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth
- the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
- holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object
- (nautical) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
- A notch or opening.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A dash or spurt of water; any large quantity of water or other liquid.
- (figuratively, especially in the plural) Anything resembling the jaw (sense 1) of an animal in form or action; the mouth or way of entrance.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A wave, a billow, a breaker.
- The part of the face below the mouth.
- (slang) An axle guard.
- (snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
- One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
- A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
- One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them.
- (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
- (transitive) To speak; to utter.
- (sheep husbandry) To examine the teeth of.
- To exit at a mouth (such as a river mouth)
- To form a mouth or opening in.
- To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
- (ambitransitive) To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.
- To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
- (transitive) To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but silently, without producing sound; to frame.
- (figurative) Ellipsis of mouth the words; to speak insincerely.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound.
- To carry in the mouth.
- express in speech
- articulate silently; form words with the lips only
- touch with the mouth
- (anatomy) The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
- (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
- (slang) A gossip.
- An outlet, aperture or orifice.
- (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
- The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river.
- the opening of a jar or bottle
- an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge)
- a person conceived as a consumer of food
- the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening
- a spokesperson (as a lawyer)
- the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge
- the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water
- an impudent or insolent rejoinder
- (UK, colloquial) Pound sterling. (usually only used with a whole number of pounds)
- (historical) A sovereign or guinea, that is, a certain coin or amount of money.
- A piece of material for chewing, especially chewing tobacco.
- (US, colloquial) The act of chewing such tobacco.
- (Commonwealth, colloquial, by extension, rare) Dollar, dollars.
- (Ireland, colloquial, by extension) Euro.
- (Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial, historical) Various national currencies typically known by the name "pound".
- Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something else.
- The inherent nature of something.
- (US, historical) A member of a section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811, following John Randolph of Roanoke. (From tertium quid.)
- something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something they do or give or promise
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- To make (one's way) through or while taking small bites.
- To make (a hole in something) through small bites.
- Chiefly followed by into or to: to cause (something) to be in a certain state through small bites.
- Chiefly followed by at, away, or on: to take a small, quick bite, or several of such bites; to eat (at frequent intervals) with small, quick bites.
- Chiefly followed by at: to show slight interest in something, such as a commercial opportunity or a proposal.
- To remove (small pieces) from glass, tile, etc., with a tool; also, to remove small pieces from (glass, tile, etc.) with a tool.
- To take a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, of (something).
- Followed by away at: to reduce or use up gradually; to eat.
- To lightly bite (a person or animal, or part of their body), especially in a loving or playful manner; to nip.
- (road transport) Synonym of tramline (“of a vehicle: to tend to follow the contours of the ground with its wheels”).
- (cricket, informal) Followed by at: of a batter: to make an indecisive attempt to bat a ball bowled outside the off stump.
- To lightly bite, especially in a loving or playful manner.
- Followed by away, off, etc.: to remove (something) through small bites.
- bite off very small pieces
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- bite gently
- (figurative) A slight show of interest in something, such as a commercial opportunity or a proposal.
- An act of taking a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, especially with the front teeth; the bite or bites so taken.
- (computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or chiefly four bits.
- A light bite of a person or animal, or part of their body, especially one which is loving or playful; a nip.
- An amount of food that is or can be taken into the mouth through a small bite; a small mouthful.
- gentle biting
- a small byte