Word: cud
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...with dry snuff, of which every member and guest must partake. Damp snuff is highly-ground tobacco mixed with a little salt and, later, oil of wintergreen, rose, or a similar flavor. The advantage of chewing snuff over chewing tobacco is that snuff does not form so large a cud (word used by all snuff technicians), therefore requires less expectorating, is less conspicuous...
...Owensboro, Ky., a woman telephoned the police in the night, said a man was peeping in her window, that she was holding him at bay with a pistol. Rushing to the house, police found a cow, munching her cud, looking in the window...
Forthwith, from many a cover, svelte females simpered; deep-browed males smirked. All were ruminant. Their cud, readers learned, was PRIMLEY'S PEPSIN GUM. And Pioneer Thompson's illustrations dared even more. They caused apple-cheeked lasses to pedal CRESCENT, RAMBLER bicycles. Other lasses donned DR. WARNER'S CORALIE CORSETS, "Fitted to Living Models." Subscribers responded; magazines prospered...
...rational, hygienic Mosaic dietary laws are catalogued in Deuteronomy 14, which specifies that the flesh of only cloven-footed beats that chew their cud may be eaten-cattle, deer, etc. Cloven-footed hares and swine do not chew their cuds and are interdicted...
Beside a bend in the Smoky Hill River, near Sharon Springs, Kan., a white cow observed one of last week's sunrises, ruminatively as was her wont. But she never finished that morning's cud. At 7 o'clock the ground yawned beneath her with a rumbling roar and she was swallowed up, with a section of her pasture, into the bowels of the earth. That at least was what people thought had happened...