pudding cloth (pudingkloth)

The cloth in which a pudding is boiled. pudding-faced (pud'ing-fast), a. Having a fat, round, smooth face; having a face suggestive of a pudding. Stupid, pudding - faced as he looks and is, there is still a vulpine astucity in him. Carlyle, Cagliostro. pudding-fish (pud'ing-fish), n . A labroid fish of West Indian waters, Platy glo us radiatus, the bluefish or don cell a. pudding-gra (pud'ing-grås), n . The pennyroyal, Mentha Pulegium : so called from its use in seasoning puddings. Also pudding - herb . [Old and provincial.] pudding-bag. His mighty arguments prove not the value of a poding prick . Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), [p. 141. pudding-sleeve (pud'ing-slēv), η. A large, loose sleeve; especially, in England, a sleeve of the black gown of a clergyman. He sees, yet hardly can believe, About each arm a pudding - sleeve ; His waistcoat to a ca ock grew. Swift , Baucis and Philemon. A rock made pudding-stone (pud'ing-stōn), n. up of rounded and water-worn debris of other rocks, a considerable proportion of the pieces being large enough to be called pebbles or cobbles. Detrital rocks made up of finer materials are called sandstones, shales, or mudstones. Pudding - stone is a synonym of conglomerate. See cut under conglomerate. pudding-time (pud'ing-tīm), n. 1. The time for pudding-that is, dinner-time.-24. The nick of time; critical time. I came in season - as they say, in pudding time , tempore veni. Withals ' Dictionarie (ed. 1608), p. 3. ( Nares . ) But Mars, that still protects the stout, In pudding - time came to his aid. S. Butler, Hudibras, I. ii. 865. When George in pudding - time came o'er, And moderate men looked big, sir, My principles I changed once more, And so became a Whig, sir. Vicar of Bray. To pudding-tobaccot (pud'ing-tō-bak"ō), n. bacco made up in rolls like puddings. Never kneels but to pledge healths, nor prays but for a pipe of pudding - tobacco . B. Jonson , Cynthia's Revels, ii. 1. pudding-wife (pud'ing-wif), n. A labroid fish, Platy glo us radiatus , with a long body, large scales, and the color bluish or bronze, with wavy sky-blue spots, a stripe from snout to nape, and blue stripes in the fins. It occurs from the Florida Keys to Brazil. puddingy (pud'ing-i), a . [ pudding + -y1.] Resembling or suggestive of a pudding. [Colloq.] A limpne and roundne of limb which give the form a puddingy appearance. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, III. 65. puddlel (pud'l), n . [Early mod. E. also puddel ; podel , a pool; origin obscure. Cf. AS. pudd (rare), a ditch or furrow (glo ed by L. sulcus); E. dial. pudge , a ditch. The W. pwdel , a puddle, is prob. Ther's not a Puddle (though it strangely stink) But dry they draw 't, Sea-Water's dainty Drink. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Schisme. The Lucrine lake is but a puddle in comparison of what it once was, its springs having been sunk in an earthquake. Add is on, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 432. 2. Clay to which a little water has been added and which has then been tempered, so as to make it homogeneous and increase its plasticity. It is used in a great variety of ways when a watertight stopping is required. It is also called paddling puddlel (pud'l), v.; pret. and pp. puddled, ppr. puddling. [Early mod. E. also poodle; appar. from the noun, but prob. in part a var. of pad dlel and pudder in similar senses. In the technical sense, def. 3, the verb has been adopted into other tongues (F. puddler, etc.).] I. trans. 1. To make foul or muddy; stir up the mud or sediment in; hence, to befoul in a figurative IMG:content-1264.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1265.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To work puddle into; render water-tight by means of puddle. See puddle1, n., 2.-3. Το convert (pig-iron) into wrought-iron by stirring while subjected to intense heat, in order to expel the oxygen and carbon. See puddling, n., 2. II. in trans. To make a stir, as in a pool. IMG:content-1266.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] a, Fire-chamber; b, iron-chamber; c, hearth; d, stock-hole; e, m, tap-hole; n, stopper-hole. puerperal artery, except that it does not receive the blood from the dorsal vein of the penis. pudical (pū ́di-kal), a. [