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单词 masticator
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masticatorn.

Brit. /ˈmastᵻkeɪtə/, U.S. /ˈmæstəˌkeɪdər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: masticate v., -or suffix.
Etymology: < masticate v. + -or suffix. Compare post-classical Latin masticator muscle for chewing (1528 or earlier), itself after ancient Greek μασητήρ.
1. A medicinal preparation intended for chewing. Cf. masticatory n. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > other miscellaneous medicines > [noun] > medicines to be chewed
masticatorium?1550
masticatory1583
masticator1596
1596 P. Lowe Easie Method to cure Spanish Sicknes viii. sig. F2v For the cure we must euacuat the euill humor generally through all the bodie,..which may be done two wayes, to wit exterior and interior. Interior by masticators to prouoke spitting, as Pereter, Mastick, Pepper.
1625 W. Gordon Pharmaco-pinax 42 (table) Simple Masticators the piece 1.s. 6.d.
2. Perhaps: the parotid duct. Obsolete. rare.
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1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Five Treat. Masticator, the Pipe or Conduit that conveys the pituitous matter out of the Head into the Mouth.
3. Frequently humorous. In plural. The teeth or jaws.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > jaws > [noun]
jawsc1374
chaps1555
chops1589
masticator1681
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > jaws > [noun]
rakeeOE
jowlOE
jawsc1374
chafta1400
chop?a1513
chaw1530
chop1615
masticator1681
the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > tooth or teeth > [noun]
teetha900
munpinsc1475
gams1508
peg1598
tusk1632
masticator1681
headrail1767
ivory1783
tombstone1809
dominos1828
dental1837
toothy-peg1840
fang1841
cruncher1859
chomper1884
teg1886
Hampstead Heath1887
pearly1914
gnasher1919
tat1919
pearly whites1935
chopper1937
1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. vii. xxii. 145 (caption) A [nerve] shoot which compassing about the process of the lower Jaw, is carried to the outward part of the exterior Masticator [L. masticatorii externi].
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. viii. 30 Just heaven! What masticators!—What bread!
1797 A. Seward Lett. (1811) IV. 311 His..preference of such impure masticators to the clean ivory supplied by the dentist.
1816 ‘Quiz’ Grand Master iii. 66 Their masticators they employ, On..beef, and goat.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 27 It requires powerful masticators, a vigorous appetite and digestion.
1893 Good Housek. June 252/2 The youth..rolling into the corner of his jaw the quid which he had been vigorously chewing—replied: ‘Mr. A— is not in; Mr. B— will be in about half-past three this afternoon..’—with which his masticators resumed operations.
1912 R. H. Dennett Healthy Baby iv. 125 We may not expect the four other double teeth until two and one half years, when our baby has all the temporary masticators, twenty in number.
1932 Auckland Star 14 Nov. 6/6 Another young man has a friend who, having been deprived of his natural masticators, sits at table alongside a meat chopper affixed to the table.
1989 Limerick Leader 30 Sept. 84/8 If it is not possible for a [rugby] supporter to cheer on his own team to victory without incurring the loss of his food masticators...the sooner the competition is abandoned the better.
2013 Sunday Independent (Ireland) 21 Apr. 48/3 All the talk of what they could eat, and indeed ate, overlooked the fact that many of them were indebted to their dentures for the successful chewing of their daily meat and potates—indentured masticators, as it were.
4. A person or animal that chews, or is adapted for chewing.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > chewing > chewer
champer1599
chawer1611
chewer1612
masticator1694
chomper1852
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. xx 90 Her Abstractors, Spodizators, Masticators [Fr. Massiteres], Prægustics..and other Officers, for whom I want Names.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. xxiii 105 When her Prægustators had tasted the meat, her Masticators [Fr. Massiteres]..chew'd it.
1724 Let. Quidnunc's 2/1 But, pray Sir, how goes on your Scheming?.. Does Masticator, Sage and Wise, Some worn-out Stuff, anew, devise?
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller (1850) 124 Never was there a more..thoroughly sustained attack on the trencher than by this phalanx of masticators.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 417 Insects of late have been divided into two great tribes, masticators and suckers.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 434 The Shark is not a careful masticator.
1860 H. B. Tristram Great Sahara vi. 95 The dyers actually hire masticators to provide them with tannin.
1986 T. Mo Insular Possession xxiv. 297 It would go hard with you, ye masticators of tobacco!
2014 J. Hall Weep for Afr. 100 One master,..a Swiss fitness fanatic in his mid-thirties, was a masticator of note, a chewing fanatic in that he chomped a mouthful of food exactly eighteen times on each side.
5. A machine for grinding, pulping, or masticating.In quot. 1824: a device to ensure that horses masticate slowly enough to ensure proper digestion.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > [noun] > pulping apparatus
masticator1824
pulper1853
macerator1912
1824 in Reg. Arts, & Jrnl. Patent Inventions (1825) 2 84 A part of the manger, about eighteen inches long, is separated from the rest by a partition, into which the feed of corn is put, and over this the masticator; which is made of a thin plate of wrought iron,..uniformly cut out into square holes.
1843 W. Hancock in Repertory Patent Inventions (1844) 4 26 A means of softening or dissolving caouchouc or india-rubber more readily than by use of the ‘masticator’.
1858 B. Godefroy Brit. Patent 1687 (1859) 4 The gutta percha is then..submitted to the masticator.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1407/2 Masticator, a small machine to cut up meat for aged persons or those who have lost their teeth.
1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 1/2 The rubber..is introduced into the ‘masticator’, which consists of a strong cylindrical box, containing a stout deeply-fluted drum, which revolves within the box.
1918 H. Abraham Asphalts xxiii. 351 If the product is to be produced in paste form, the emulsification is brought about in a ‘masticator’..in which mechanical agitation is coupled with..grinding or trituration.
1995 E. Arthur Antarctic Navigation 314 The helicopter hangar and the helo pad near the transition zone. The sewage masticator and the seawater-intake pump house.
2008 A. T. G. Elzebroek Guide Cultivated Plants iii. 133 The invention of a machine called a ‘masticator’ in 1820 made it possible to soften, mix, and shape natural rubber.

Compounds

masticator space n. Anatomy a potential anatomical space bounded by cervical fascia and containing the ramus of the mandible and the masseter and pterygoid muscles.
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1935 F. A. Coller & L. Yglesias in Surg. Gynecol. & Obstetr. 60 277/2 These structures..are enclosed by the superficial and deep divisions of the middle cervical fascia that enclose the body of the mandibles, forming a definite potential anatomical space known as the masticator space.
1976 Otolaryngol. Clin. N. Amer. 9 711 The masticator space is closed everywhere except superiorly.
2012 C. Czerny & R. Saat in R. Hermans Head & Neck Cancer Imaging 195 The masticator space is a deep facial space containing the mandibular ramus and the muscles of mastication.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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