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In a pleading manner.

iff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point. Blackstone.

Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding student; a man of plodding habits. --Plod"ding*ly, adv.

A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.

A pounded or pulverized substance. [R.] "Covered with the poundings of these rocks." J. S. Blackie.

Going before; -- opposed to following.

a. & n. from Preside. Presiding elder. See under 2d Elder.

As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously. Collier.

Proudly. [Obs.]

her; a measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding. The proceedings of the high commission. Macaulay.

iously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc. And solid pudding against empty praise. Pope.

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.

Stupid. [Colloq.]

The construction of a railroad; the business of managing or operating a railroad. [Colloq. U. S.]

The act or process of making and applying rands for shoes.

Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.

Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph.

A long plain double-breasted outside coat for women.

A small convex molding; a reed (see Illust. (i) of Molding); one of several set close together to decorate a surface; also, decoration by means of reedings; -- the reverse of fluting.

Concerning; respecting.