2. Verb. (present participle of gnaw) ¹
3. Noun. A sensation of being gnawed ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gnawing
1. a persistent dull pain [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gnawing
Literary usage of Gnawing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"The large gnawing teeth are further peculiar in being curved and Longitudinal
section through Beaver skull. I Incisor tooth showing long curved base. ..."
2. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"The large gnawing teeth are further peculiar in being curved and Longitudinal
section through Beaver skull. I Incisor tooth showing long curved base. ..."
3. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"The large gnawing teeth are further peculiar in being curved and Longitudinal
section through Beaver skull. I Incisor tooth showing long curved base. ..."
4. Nature Study and the Child by Charles B. Scott (1900)
"gnawing. Perhaps pupils have already observed the rabbit gnawing the woodwork of
his cage or home, or have discovered evidences of his gnawing power. ..."
5. Graham's Magazine by George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
"Л YOUTH leaned over a lump-lit book Willi fémures of care and pain; For a worm
WHS winding through niche я nil nook Of hie full ami feverish brain:— gnawing ..."
6. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"Rodents (gnawing Animals). — Rodents are first known from the Eocene, ... With the
exception of their powerful gnawing teeth (incisors), rodents, ..."
7. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"... regarded as a defense against gnawing animals, and as such, accessory to the
spines which can be effective as a protection only against the larger ..."
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