2. To ruminate mentally; to meditate on.
He chews revenge, abjuring his offense. --Prior.
{To chew the cud}, to chew the food ocer again, as a cow; to
ruminate; hence, to meditate.
Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the
cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the
beasts, that ye shall eat. --Deut. xxiv.
6.