Gnetum (netum)

(Rumphius, 1767), rage, etc. Then gnaw'd his pen, then dash'd it on the ground. Pope , Dunciad, i. 117. At this he turn'd all red and paced his hall, Now gnaw'd his under, now his upper lip. Tennyson, Geraint. 3. To wear away as if by continued biting; consume; fret; waste. Thou, in envy of him, gnaw'st thyself. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, i. 1. Some derive the word Rhodanus [modern Rhone) from the Latine word rodere, which sign if i eth to gnaw, because in certaine places it doth continually gnaw and eat his Coryat , Crudities, I. 62. bankes. To bite or gnaw a file. See file1. =Syn. 1. Chew. See eat. II. in trans. 1. To act by or as if by continual biting away of small fragments or portions. Take from my heart those you sand you sand Furies, That restle gnaw upon my life, and save me! Fletcher (and another ), False One, iv. 3. mon or gnemo, given as its name in the island of Ternate, Malay archipelago.] A genus of climbing shrubs, type of the order Gnetacea, including 15 species, natives of tropical regions. They have jointed stems, opposite dilated leaves, flowers verticillate in terminal spikes, and the fruit often drupaceous. The fruit of G. Gnemon and some other Asiatic species is edible, and the young leaves are used as a vegetable. gnewt. An obsolete preterit of gnaw. gnidet, v. t. [ gnidan (pret. gnad , pl. gnidon , pp. ge - gniden ), rub, break to pieces, = OHG. gnitan , MHG. gniten = leel. gnidha = Sw. gnida = Dan. gnide , rub.] To rub; bruise; pound; break in pieces. Herbes he sought and fond, And gnidded hem bitwix his hond. Arthour and Merlin , p. 94. ( Hall i well .) gnitt, n. [ME. gnit, pl. gnyttus = LG. gnid = G. gnitze , a gnat, = Icel. gnit , mod. nitr = Norw. gnit = Sw.gnet = Dan. gnid , a nit. Cf. gnat. If a Serpent gnawing in our bowels be a representation The AS. hnitu, E. nit, is appar. a different word: of an insupportable misery here, what will Worm that never dies? Stilling fleet , Sermons, I. v. Wretched hunger gnaweth at my heart. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, II. 156. 2. To bite or nibble at the hook, as fish. [Fisher men's slang.] gnawt, n. [ gnaw , v .] A gnawing. Nine days I struggled-think the cruel strife, The gnaw of anguish, and the waste of life! Boyse, Written in the Palace of Falkland. gnawable (na'a-bl), a. [ gnaw , v ., + -able .] That may be gnawed. Undisturbed, the rats played in wild riot through my hut during the day, and in the night gnawed everything gnawable . H. O. Forbes , Eastern Archipelago, p. 484. gnawed (nad), p . a . In bot . , irregularly toothed, as if from gnawing; erose. IMG:content-2448.png:[blocks in formation] They [porcupines] are great gnawers , and will gnaw your house down if you are not watchful. J. Burroughs, The Century, XXXVI. 617. 2. In zool.: (a) A rodent. (b) pl . The Ro dentia , Rosores, or Glires. gnawing (na'ing), n. [ knaging ; verbal n. of gnaw , v.] The act of continued biting, consuming, or fretting. Nowe therefore let vs here rehearse the contencion of familiar thinges, the gnawing at the heartes, and the freat ing of mindes & vowes, promises and requestes made of Hall, Hen. VII., an. 19. diuerse per sones.