Definitions for cud
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. cud, rechewed foodnoun

   food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again

2. chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wadnoun

   a wad of something chewable as tobacco

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cudnoun

   The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.

2. Etymology: From cudu, earlier cwidu, of origin. Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit जतु.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CUDnoun

   That food which is reposited in the first stomach in order to rumination, or to be chewed again.

   Etymology: cud , Saxon.

   Many times, when my master’s cattle came hither to chew their cud in this fresh place, I might see the young bull testify his love. Philip Sidney.

   You range the pathless wood,
   While on a flow’ry bank he chews the cud. Dryden.

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1. Cud

   Cud is a portion of food that returns from a ruminant's stomach to the mouth to be chewed for the second time. More precisely, it is a bolus of semi-degraded food regurgitated from the reticulorumen of a ruminant. Cud is produced during the physical digestive process of rumination.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cudnoun

   that portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time

2. Cudnoun

   a portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid

3. Cudnoun

   the first stomach of ruminating beasts

4. Etymology: [AS. cudu, cwudu,cwidu,cweodo, of uncertain origin; cf, G. kder bait, Icel. kvir womb, Goth. qius. Cf. Quid.]

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1. Cud

   Cud is a portion of food that returns from a ruminant's stomach in the mouth to be chewed for the second time. More accurately, it is a bolus of semi-degraded food regurgitated from the reticulorumen of a ruminant. Cud is produced during the physical digestive process of rumination. The idiomatic expression chewing one's cud means meditating or pondering; similar expressions such as "he chewed that over for a bit", or "chew on that!" likely have the same derivation.

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1. Cud

   kud, n. the food brought from the first stomach of a ruminating animal back into the mouth and chewed again.—n. Cud′weed, the popular name for many species of plants covered with a cottony down.—Chew the cud, to meditate. [A.S. cwidu.]

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1. ucd

2. UDC

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of cud in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

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   The numerical value of cud in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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