white pudding (hwitpuding)

1. A pudding made of milk, eggs, flour, and butter.-2. A kind of sausage of oatmeal mixed with suet, seasoned with pepper, salt, and sometimes onions, and stuffed into a prepared intestine. Compare black - pudding. white-rock (hwit'rok), n. In the South Staff ords hire coal-field, dikes of diabasic rock which there intersect the coal-measures. Microscopical examination shows that this white - rock or "white-trap" is merely an altered form of some diabasic or basaltic rock, wherein the felspar crystals, though much decayed, can yet be traced, the augite, olivine, and magnetite being more or le completely changed into a mere pulverulent earthy substance. Geikie, Text-Book of Geol., 2d ed., p. 560. white-roott (hwit'röt), n. The Solomon's-seal, Polygonatum multiflorum , or perhaps P. offici nale.