Definition of Mastications

1. Noun. (plural of mastication) ¹

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Definition of Mastications

1. mastication [n] - See also: mastication

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mastications

mastheading
mastheads
masthouse
masthouses
mastic
masticable
masticate
masticated
masticater
masticaters
masticates
masticating
masticating cycles
masticating surface
mastication
mastications
masticator
masticator nerve
masticatories
masticators
masticatory
masticatory apparatus
masticatory diplegia
masticatory force
masticatory muscles
masticatory nucleus
masticatory silent period
masticatory spasm
masticatory surface
masticatory system

Literary usage of Mastications

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Glutton, Or Epicure by Horace Fletcher (1903)
"GLADSTONES RULE Numbers of mastications as related to given quantities and kinds of foods ... Some morsels of food will not resist thirty-two mastications, ..."

2. The New Glutton Or Epicure by Horace Fletcher (1903)
"GLADSTONE S RULE Numbers of mastications as related to given quantities and kinds of foods ... Some morsels of food will not resist thirty-two mastications, ..."

3. Scientific Nutrition Simplified: A Condensed Statement and Explanation for by Goodwin Brown (1908)
"Just eat slowly, deliberately, small morsels, and sip and taste small quantities of liquids and observe what happens.14 " Numbers of mastications . . . are ..."

4. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1885)
"His body is of a transparent ' white-wax-like color,' and has hair upon it, for 1 noticed portions of the refuse of his mastications adhering to him, ..."

5. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie (1808)
"Sometimes, too, after stumbling by accident upon a tolerable good thing, she gives it a few convulsive mastications, and then ihro«'» it aside, ..."

6. The Metropolitan (1834)
"... for some special occasion, or, on some of my frequent shore-trips, to provide him with some choice bit for his eternal mastications. ..."

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