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Morsel

A little bite or bit of food.

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Chaw 76% connected

To grind with the teeth; to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit.

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Chew 76% connected

To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.

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Crumb 76% connected

A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.

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Cud 76% connected

That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.

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Plug 76% connected

Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.

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Quid 76% connected

A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.

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Sop 76% connected

Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.

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Wad 76% connected

Woad.

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Mouthful 76% connected

As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time.

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Taste 76% connected

To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.

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Bit 92% connected

The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bite 92% connected

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a cru…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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