morsitation

English

Noun

morsitation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) The act of biting or gnawing.
   • 1909, Transactions of the National Dental Association, page 83:

     […] and his research into the literature of the subject, with his liberal recognition of the quotation marks, indicates his well-disposed mind toward the men who have blazed the way before him in this difficult and intricate mechanism of morsitation.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “morsitation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• misrotation