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PUD'DING, n.
PUD'DING
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. Anything resembling, or of the softness and
consistency of, pudding.
An intestine] especially, an intestine
stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage.
Shak. Any food or victuals.
Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue. Prior. 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
Conglomerate, Mars, that still protects the stout, | ||||||||