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v. t. [ L. depudicatus, p. p. of depudicare. ] To deflour; to dishonor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A batter or pudding made of flour or oatmeal, stirred into boiling water or milk. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. impudentia: cf. F. impudence. See Impudent. ] The quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others; shamelessness; forwardness; lack of modesty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clear truths that their own evidence forces us to admit, or common experience makes it impudence to deny. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where pride and impudence (in fashion knit)
Usurp the chair of wit. B. Jonson.

Syn. -- Shamelessness; audacity; insolence; effrontery; sauciness; impertinence; pertness; rudeness. -- Impudence, Effrontery, Sauciness. Impudence refers more especially to the feelings as manifested in action. Effrontery applies to some gross and public exhibition of shamelessness. Sauciness refers to a sudden pert outbreak of impudence, especially from an inferior. Impudence is an unblushing kind of impertinence, and may be manifested in words, tones, gestures, looks, etc. Effrontery rises still higher, and shows a total or shameless disregard of duty or decorum under the circumstances of the case. Sauciness discovers itself toward particular individuals, in certain relations; as in the case of servants who are saucy to their masters, or children who are saucy to their teachers. See Impertinent, and Insolent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Impudence. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Audacious without impudency. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. impudens, -entis; pref. im- not + pudens ashamed, modest, p. pr. of pudere to feel shame: cf. F. impudent. ] 1. Behaving boldly, with contempt or disregard for propriety in behavior toward others; unblushingly forward; impertinent; saucy. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

More than impudent sauciness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

When we behold an angel, not to fear
Is to be impudent. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lacking modesty; shameless. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Shameless; audacious; brazen; bold-faced; pert; immodest; rude; saucy; impertinent; insolent. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly. [ 1913 Webster ]

At once assail
With open mouths, and impudently rail. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. impudicus immodest; im- not + pudicus shamefaced, modest: cf. F. impudicité, L. impudicitia. ] Immodesty. Sheldon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A merry-andrew; a buffoon. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Liverpool; as, Liverpudlian street urchins. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of or pertaining to Liverpool; as, Liverpudlian streets. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A resident of Liverpool. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Pood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The hand; the first. [ Colloq. ] Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Probably fr. pudden, for pudding, in allusion to its softness. ] (Naut.) (a) A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a fender, on the bow of a boat. (b) A bunch of soft material to prevent chafing between spars, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Puddered p. pr. & vb. n. Puddering. ] [ Cf. Pother. ] To make a tumult or bustle; to splash; to make a pother or fuss; to potter; to meddle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Puddering in the designs or doings of others. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others pudder into their food with their broad nebs. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; to bother; as, to pudder a man. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pother; a tumult; a confused noise; turmoil; bustle. “All in a pudder.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

And solid pudding against empty praise. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Any food or victuals. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Naut.) Same as Puddening. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Mars, that still protects the stout,
In pudding time came to his aid. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Stupid. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }. [ Prob. corrupted fr. the Sp. name in Cuba, pudiano verde. ] (Zool.) A large, handsomely colored, blue and bronze, labroid fish (Iridio radiatus, syn. Platyglossus radiatus) of Florida, Bermuda, and the West Indies. Called also pudiano, doncella, and, at Bermuda, bluefish. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. podel; cf. LG. pudel, Ir. & Gael. plod pool. ] 1. A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water. [ 1913 Webster ]

Puddle poet, a low or worthless poet. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Puddled p. pr. & vb. n. Puddling ] 1. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water). [ 1913 Webster ]

Some unhatched practice . . .
Hath puddled his clear spirit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water. (b) To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To subject to the process of puddling, as iron, so as to convert it from the condition of cast iron to that of wrought iron. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Puddled steel, steel made directly from cast iron by a modification of the puddling process. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make a dirty stir. [ Obs. ] R. Junius. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Hydraul. Engin.) (a) The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids; also, the process of rendering anything impervious to liquids by means of puddled material. (b) Puddle. See Puddle, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Metal.) The art or process of converting cast iron into wrought iron or steel by subjecting it to intense heat and frequent stirring in a reverberatory furnace in the presence of oxidizing substances, by which it is freed from a portion of its carbon and other impurities. [ 1913 Webster ]

Puddling furnace, a reverberatory furnace in which cast iron is converted into wrought iron or into steel by puddling. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of, or resembling, puddles; muddy; foul. “Thick puddly water.” Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For paddock, or parrock, a park. ] A small inclosure. [ Written also purrock. ] [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pudens, p. pr. of pudere to be ashamed. ] Modesty; shamefacedness. “A pudency so rosy.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ L., from pudendus that of which one ought to be ashamed, fr. pudere to be ashamed. ] (Anat.) The external organs of generation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pudenda, or pudendum. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Pudenda. ] (Anat.) The external organs of generation, especially of the female; the vulva. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Short and fat or sturdy; dumpy; podgy; as, a short, pudgy little man; a pudgy little hand. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pudicus modest, fr. pudere to be ashamed: cf. F. pudique. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the external organs of generation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Pudic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. pudicité, L. pudicitia. ] Modesty; chastity. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A very small deer (Pudua humilis), native of the Chilian Andes. It has simple spikelike antlers, only two or three inches long. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See repudiate. ] Admitting of repudiation; fit or proper to be put away. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Repudiated p. pr. & vb. n. Repudiating. ] [ L. repudiatus, p. p. of repudiare to repudiate, reject, fr. repudium separation, divorce; pref. re- re- + pudere to be ashamed. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject. [ 1913 Webster ]

Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care. Prynne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry. [ 1913 Webster ]

His separation from Terentis, whom he repudiated not long afterward. Bolingbroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf.F. répudiation, L. repudiatio. ] The act of repudiating, or the state of being repuddiated; as, the repudiation of a doctrine, a wife, a debt, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who favors repudiation, especially of a public debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., a rejecter, contemner. ] One who repudiates. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) Any large holothurian. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Dan. spyd a spear. ] 1. A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

My spud these nettles from the stone can part. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dagger. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A potato. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. tripudium a measured stamping, a leaping, a solemn religious dance. ] Of or pertaining to dancing; performed by dancing. [ R. ] “ Tripudiary augurations.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. tripudiare, tripudiatum. ] To dance. [ R. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]