pudicity (pudisiti)

[= F. pudic ité, It sheweth much grauitie & also pudicitie , hiding euery member of the body which had not bin pleasant to behold. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 237. something short and thick ( puddel - rund, purrel rund, short, thick, and round), puddig, thick, puddeln, pudeln, waddle, pudel, a thick-haired dog (see poodle ).] A pudgy, ill-shaped, awkward person. I remember when I was quite a boy hearing her called a limping old puddle . Mi Burney, Cecilia, vii. 5. ( Davies .) A foot which a puddle of a maid scalded three weeks Carlyle, in Froude, Life in London, I. 16. ago. puddle-ball (pud'l-bal), n. In iron- manuf., a lump of red-hot iron taken from the puddling-furnace in a pasty state to be hammered or rolled. puddle-bar (pud'l-bär), n. Bar-iron as it comes from the puddle-rolls (see that word).-Puddle bar train. See muck - rolls. puddle-duck (pud'l-duk), п. The common domestic duck: so called from its characteristic habit of puddling water. puddle-poet (pud'l-pō"et), n. A low, mean poet. [Rare.] The puddle - poet did hope that the jingling of his rhyme would drown the sound of his false quantity. Fuller , Ch. Hist., I. iii. 1. ( Davies .) puddler (pud'lėr), n . One who or that which puddles; specifically, one who is employed in the proce of converting cast-iron into wrought iron.- Rotary puddler, in metal - working , a mechanical puddler in which the treatment of the molten metal is effected by the rotation of the furnace. See Danks rotary furnace , under furnace . puddle-rolls (pud'l-rōlz), n. pl. In iron - manuf., a pair of heavy iron rollers with grooved surfaces, between which the lumps of iron taken from the puddling-furnace, after being subjected to a preliminary forging, are pa ed so as to be converted into rough bars.