puddle, pod el, pudle, puddel

& a. [Irish plodach =a puddle, mire; Gael. plod an =a small pool, dim in. from Irish & Gael. plod =a pool; Low Ger. pudel =apool; Dut. poedelen =to puddle.] IMG:content-1709.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1710.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Hydr. Eng.: To work puddle into; to render watertight by means of puddle. 2. Iron - manuf .: To convert into wrought-iron by the proce of puddling (q. v.). "The effect of the puddling is still further to remove the carbon." -Ca ell's Tech . Educator , pt. xi., p. 274. *B. In trans.: To make a dirty stir. pŭd-dler, s . [Eng. puddl (e); -er.] One who or that which puddles; spec if., in iron manufacture, one who is engaged in the proce of puddling iron. Mechanical puddlers have also been adopted. [PUDDLING-MACHINE.] "The constant attendance of the puddler and his a istant."-Ca ell's Technical Educator , pt. xi., p. 274. půd'-dling, pr. par. & 8. [PUDDLE, v.] A. As pr. par.: (See the verb.) B. As substantive : 1. Hydr . Eng .: The act or proce of working plastic clay behind sheet-piling, in a coffer-dam, a wall in a dike, the lining for a canal, or any other situation, to resist the penetration of water; generally as supplementary to a main structure, and forming a retentive stratum or clothing therefor. 2. Iron - manufacture : (1) The lining of the hearth or boshes of a furnace in which metal is melted. The term puddling arose from the fact that the hearth was originally made by a puddling of clay upon the bricks or masonry of the furnace. The clay is now superseded by ore, cinder, and scrap, banked up around the boshes to protect them from the heat. (2) The proce of converting cast into wrought iron by boiling and stirring, by which the oxygen and carbon of the cast iron are expelled by the decarbonizing action of the atmospheric air which pa es through the furnace. Wet puddling : [PIG-BOILING.] puddling-furnace, s . Iron- manuf .: A kind of reverberatory furnace for puddling iron. puddling-machine, s. Iron - manuf .: A mechanical puddler, operating by means of mechanical rabbles, or by rotation of the furnace. pud-dly, a. [Eng. puddle (e), s.; -y.] Muddy, dirty, miry, foul. "Limy, or thick puddly water killeth them."-Carew: Survey of Cornwall . 3290 pūd'-ic, püd-ic-al, adj. [Lat. pudic us, from pudeo to be ashamed.] Pertaining to the pudenda; as, the pudic artery. pu-diç'-1-ty, s. [Fr. pudic ité, from Lat. pudic it i a, from pudic us =modest.] [PUDIC.] Modesty, chastity. "The sacred fire of pudicity and continence." -Howell : Letters, iv. 7. půd-sỹ, a. [PUDGY.] pu-dû', s. [Native name.] Zool.: A genus of Cervidae, with one species, Pudu humilis , the Venada, from Chili. ( Gray .) It is the Cervus humilis of Bennett, but is often known as C. pudu . pue, v. i. [From the sound.] To cry or chirp like a bird; to make a low, whistling sound. "The birds likewise with chirps and puing ." Pembroke: Arcades , bk. iii., p. 498. Pueb'-lō (ue as we), 8. [Sp. pueblo a village.] 1. Anthrop.: Any tribe or gens of Indians living in pueblos. [See 2.] 2. Sociology : A building for the common use of the tribe, erected by certain of the North American Indians. Pueblos are usually large, several stories high, and built of sun-baked brick. IMG:content-1711.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Ord . Lang .: Boyish, childish, juvenile; suited for children; as, puerile amusements. (Usually with idea of contempt.) 2. Pathol . A term used in the expre ion puerile breathing or respiration; breathing like that of a child, i . e., attended with considerable sound, arising in pulmonary phthisis. *B. As subst.: A childish toy or thing. ( Gauden .) pū-er-ile-lý, adv . [English puerile ; -ly .] In a puerile or childish manner; childishly, triflingly. pū-er-ile-ne , s. [Eng. puerile ; -ne .) The quality or state of being puerile; puerility.