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A kind of large. thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.

er. Men and women busy in baking, broiling, roasting oysters, and preparing devils on the gridiron. Sir W. Scott.

A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.

To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.

A griddle. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

A gridiron. [They] make grills of [wood] to broil their meat. Cotton.

See Gridelin.

To gride. See Gride. Spenser.

A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack. "A pancake for Shrove Tuesday." Shak.

ith sour milk (lactic acid) or cream of tartar as a substitute for yeast. It is also an ingridient of most baking powders, and is used in the preparation of effervescing drinks.

A gridle. See 1st Seint. [Obs.]

A flat batter cake cooked on a griddle; a flapjack; a griddlecake. [Local, U.S.]

esembling those of the tiger. -- Tiger flower (Bot.), an iridaceous plant of the genus Tigridia (as T. conchiflora, T. grandiflora, etc.) having showy flowers, spotted or streaked somewhat like the skin of a tiger. -- Tiger grass (Bot.), a low East Indian fan palm (Chamærops Ritchieana). It is used in many ways by th…