Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin.
Dryden.
What I know Is ruminated, plotted, and set down.
Shak.
{ Ru"mi*nate (?), Ru"mi*na`ted (?) }, a. (Bot.) Having a hard albumen
penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the
nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
Ru`mi*na"tion (?), n. [L. ruminatio: cf. F. rumination.] 1. The act or
process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the
cud.
Rumination is given to animals to enable them at once to lay up a
great store of food, and afterward to chew it.
Arbuthnot.
2. The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder; deliberate
meditation or reflection.
Retiring full of rumination sad.
Thomson.
3. (Physiol.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has
been swallowed, -- occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man.
Ru"mi*na*tive (?), a. Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or
meditation.
Ru"mi*na`tor (?), n. [L.] One who ruminates or muses; a meditator.
Rum"kin (?), n. [Cf. Rummer, and see -kin.] A popular or jocular name
for a drinking vessel. [Obs.]
Rum"mage (?; 48), n. [For roomage, fr. room; hence originally, a making
room, a packing away closely. See Room.] 1. (Naut.) A place or room for
the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the
pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; --
formerly written romage. [Obs.]
2. A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning
things over.
He has made such a general rummage and reform in the office of
matrimony.
Walpole.
Rummage sale, a clearance sale of unclaimed goods in a public store, or
of odds and ends which have accumulated in a shop. Simmonds.
Rum"mage, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rummaged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Rummaging
(?).] 1. (Naut.) To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move
about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow
closely; to pack; -- formerly written roomage, and romage. [Obs.]
They might bring away a great deal more than they do, if they would
take pain in the romaging.
Hakluyt.
2. To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and
turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book,
carefully, turning over leaf after leaf.
He . . . searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so
rummageth all his closets and trunks.
Howell.
What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain
for a satisfactory account!