Crossword-Solution: MACERATES 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The food of fowls goes first into the crop, which softens it; it then passes into the gizzard, which by constant friction macerates it; this is facilitated by small stones which are generally found there, and which help to digest the food.

Defn: One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.

But the reigning and writing heads keep the thumb; they see that the welfare of the land requires their dipping the pen,--the little illegibleness on cabinet orders which one calls their name, opens and shuts, like a magic formula, money-chests, hearts, gates, warehouses, ports; the black drop of their pen manures and forces or macerates whole fields.

Poultices are emollient and sedative, but their protracted use, as of all aqueous applications, macerates and weakens the skin, and tends _to perpetuate_ the disease or cause boils.

The famous birdsnest soup is prepared from the nest of a swallow (_Collocalia esculenta_) found in caves and damp places in some islands of the Indian Archipelago; the bird macerates the material of the nest from seaweed (_Gelidium_ chiefly) in the crop, and constructs it by drawing the food out in fibres, which are attached to the damp stone with the bill.