4. Any food or victuals. Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue. Prior.
5. (Naut.)
Defn: 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, n., 2.
— 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 pudding time came to his aid.
Hudibras.
PUDDING FISH; PUDDING WIFE
Pud"ding fish, Pudding wife. [Prob. corrupted fr. the Sp. name in
Cuba, pudiano verde.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A large, handsomely colored, blue and bronze, labroid fish
(Iridio, syn. Platyglossus, radiatus) of Florida, Bermuda, and the
West Indies. Called also pudiano, doncella, and, at Bermuda,
bluefish.
PUDDING-HEADED
Pud"ding-head`ed, a.
Defn: Stupid. [Colloq.]
PUDDLE
Pud"dle, n. Etym: [OE. podel; cf. LG. pudel, Ir. & Gael. plod pool.]
1. A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool. Spenser.
2. Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water. Puddle poet, a low or worthless poet. [R.] Fuller.