Concept cluster: Physical processes > Chewing
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(obsolete) Roasting, baking.
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(slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
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The act of pelting (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
adj
Cut or diced into small pieces.
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Alternative form of concassé [(cooking) To roughly chop or cut (a tomato) into pieces after removing its seeds/core and skin.]
adj
Of french fries or potato crisps: given a crinkled or ridged texture.
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A small, usually metal, tool designed to remove crumbs from a tablecloth.
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The act of expelling cigarette smoke from the mouth and simultaneously inhaling it through the nose.
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(obsolete) A dandy, a masher.
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(physiology) The process of chewing.
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(chiefly medicine) Something chewed, originally as a medicine, now typically for pleasure or to increase the flow of saliva.
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A force created by the dynamic action of the masticatory muscles during the physiological act of chewing.
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(biology) The breaking of food into digestible chunks, normally using the teeth.
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(slang) A dentist.
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A small fragment or share of something, commonly applied to food.
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(transitive) To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
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A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
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The act of chewing food for the purpose of physically breaking it down in order to feed another individual.
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(dated) A box for holding cosmetic powder, with a puff for applying it.
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The act of masticating or chewing again or repeatedly.
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A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
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(slang, in the singular or in the plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
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A test to make sure that theatrical smoke will not set off the smoke alarms in a building.
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(Northern England, dialectal) The flamed out wick of a candle.
v
(obsolete) To trim the burnt part of a candle wick.
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To cut (poultry) along the spine and spread the halves apart, for more even cooking when grilled.
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Synonym of roasting jack
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(transitive, intransitive with on or upon) To get by imposition; to scrounge.
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Obsolete form of sponger. [One who uses a sponge.]
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(Britain, South Africa) A particular brand of correction fluid, or correction fluid in general.

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