mandō dī, sus, ere MAD-, to chew, masticate: dentibus manditur cibus: (equi) fulvum mandunt sub dentibus aurum, i. e. champ, V.: tristia saevo Volnera dente, i. e. the flesh of slaughtered animals, O.

—To eat, devour: membra, V.: humum, to bite the ground, V.

—Fig., to gnaw, lay waste: rostra ipsa.