Unchewed

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8. Cf. UNCHAWED ppl. a., and MDu. ongecouwet, -kauwet, Du. ongekaauwd, G. ungekaut.] Not chewed.

1646.  Quarles, Sheph. Orac., ix. Say, do you eat and grind it,… Or like an unchew’d Pill, but swallow’t down?

1697.  Dryden, Æneis, X. 1025. His mouth runs o’re With unchew’d morsels.

1742.  Young, Nt. Th., V. 973. All,… wide-expanding their voracious jaws, Morsel on morsel swallow down unchew’d.

1766.  Compl. Farmer, s.v. Cubbitting, O 2/2. Horses addicted to this vice are but of small value; they drop a great part of their food unchewed.

1884.  Browning, Ferishtah, Two Camels. No sprig Of toothsome chervil must I leave unchewed!

  fig.  1643–5.  Milton, Divorce, Introd. If she presume to bring forth ought, that sorts not with their unchew’d notions and suppositions.

1681.  Dryden, Abs. & Achit., I. 113. Not weigh’d or winnow’d by the Multitude, But swallow’d in the Mass, unchewed and crude.