Regurgitation of small amounts of food

Usage examples of rumination.

The First Adviser selected another paper from his pouch as he finished his rumination.

American Neurological Association Hammond defined merycism as the functions of remastication and rumination in the human subject.

Angus Parvis, on his way to Grail, not once in the whole rambling sequence of his ruminations connected his name with Parsifal.

Abigail left for New York to be with Nabby for the arrival of another baby, a second son, John Adams Smith, leaving Adams alone with his ruminations.

High praise, indeed, from a Counter-Intelligence operative whose life was devoted to Chaucerian Rumination.

There were darkies and loafers and hackmen, and also vague individuals, the loosest and blankest he had ever seen anywhere, with tufts on their chins, toothpicks in their mouths, hands in their pockets, rumination in their jaws and diamond pins in their shirt-fronts, who looked as if they had sauntered over from Pennsylvania Avenue to while away half an hour, forsaking for that interval their various slanting postures in the porticoes of the hotels and the doorways of the saloons.

For it was amid the same obscure ravines, pine-tufted precipices and falling waters of the Alps, that he afterward placed the outcast Manfred--an additional corroboration of the justness of the remarks which I ventured to offer, in adverting to his ruminations in contemplating, while yet a boy, the Malvern hills, as if they were the scenes of his impassioned childhood.

Strether recognised in him the mere portentous rumination to which Miss Barrace had so good-humouredly described herself as assigning a corner of her salon.

Huge cruses and vivid candelabra still focused their rumination toward the Auspice as if the dominion of the gaddhi's seat were not a lie.

Huge cruses and vivid candelabra still focused their rumination toward the Auspice as if the dominion of the gaddhi’s seat were not a lie.

So saying, he departed, and left the Disinherited Knight to his own perplexed ruminations, which, upon more accounts than it is now possible to communicate to the reader, were of a nature peculiarly agitating and painful.

In what he knew any hack psychiatrist would diagnose as obsessive ruminations, he passed through Key Largo, Islamorada, Layton, Key Colony Beach.

It was, according to the author's introductory note in the advance reading copy, a story that grew out of her own ruminations about China and its political situation.

Most of the brunette's mental ruminations dwelt on Commander Dash Sakai.

I thought briefly what a mess one loose jar could make of the Hall, and all our cleaning to be done again, and then decided that such ruminations were unsuited to the general air of hope and industry in Ruatha.