insalivate
Americanverb (used with object)
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Remember that if milk is not taken with great deliberation, and great care given to thoroughly insalivate each sip, then it amounts to the same thing as eating solid food.
From Appendicitis by John Henry Tilden
Quidding consists in dropping from the mouth well-chewed and insalivated boluses of feed.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Bread, to answer the requirements of a good, wholesome article of food, beside being palatable, must be light, porous, and friable, so that it can be easily insalivated and digested.
From Science in the Kitchen. by Mrs. E. E. Kellogg
If it is insalivated it coagulates in smaller curds and is more easily digested, for the digestive juices can tear down small soft curds more easily than the large tough ones.
From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by R. L. Alsaker
They do not afford sufficient opportunity for mastication, hence the food is not properly insalivated.
From The Royal Road to Health by Charles Alfred Tyrrell
They are hard, solid food, and should be thoroughly chewed and insalivated before being swallowed.
From No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes by Rupert H. Wheldon
Take a glass of milk, either sweet or sour, and what fruit is desired, insalivating both the fruit and the milk thoroughly.
From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by R. L. Alsaker
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