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Webster 1913 Edition
Pudding
Pud′ding
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
boudin
black pudding, sausage, L. botulus
, botellus
, a sausage, G. & Sw. pudding
pudding, Dan. podding
, pudding
, LG. puddig
thick, stumpy, W. poten
, potten
, also E. pod
, pout
, v.] 1.
A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.
And solid
pudding
against empty praise. Pope.
2.
Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding.
3.
An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage.
Shak.
4.
Any food or victuals.
Eat your
pudding
, slave, and hold your tongue. Prior.
5.
(Naut.)
Same as
Puddening
. Pudding grass
(Bot.)
, the true pennyroyal (
Mentha Pulegium
), formerly used to flavor stuffing for roast meat. Dr. Prior.
– Pudding pie
, a pudding with meat baked in it.
Taylor (1630).
– Pudding pipe
(Bot.)
, the long, cylindrical pod of the leguminous tree
– Cassia Fistula
. The seeds are separately imbedded in a sweetish pulp. See Cassia
. Pudding sleeve
, a full sleeve like that of the English clerical gown.
Swift.
– Pudding stone
. (Min.)
See , 2.
– Conglomerate
, Noun.
Pudding time
. (a)
The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the dish first eaten.
[Obs.]
Johnson.
(b)
The nick of time; critical time.
[Obs.]
Mars, that still protects the stout,
In
In
pudding time
came to his aid. Hudibras.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pudding
PUD'DING
, n.1.
A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but usually a compound of flour, or meal of maiz, with milk and eggs, sometimes enriched with raisins and called plum-pudding.2.
An intestine.3.
An intestine stuffed with meat,; &c. now called a sausage.4.
Proverbially, food or victuals. Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.