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tch pudding made of the heart, liver, lights, etc., of a sheep or lamb, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck. [Written also haggiss, haggess, and haggies.]

Irishman's reef (Naut.), the head of a sail tied up. -- Irish stew, meat, potatoes, and onions, cut in small pieces and stewed.

A kind of soup containing thin slices or shreds of carrots, onions, etc.

layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.

sing from a loose oblong cylindrical bulb. The flavor is stronger than that of the common onion. Wild leek , in America, a plant (Allium tricoccum) with a cluster of ovoid bulbs and large oblong elliptical leaves.

otatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.

A stew, commonly of fish, flavored with wine, and served with a wine sauce containing onions, mushrooms, etc.

y explosive. A very dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of glonion. [Written also nitroglycerine.]

Onion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A scallion; a leek or small onion. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

small two-winged fly (Anthomyia raphani) whose larvæ burrow in radishes. It resembles the onion fly. -- Rat-tailed radish (Bot.), an herb (Raphanus caudatus) having a long, slender pod, which is sometimes eaten. -- Wild radish (Bot.), the jointed charlock.

on of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag.

ing consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.

See Ronion.

A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc. Leaves eaten raw termed salad. I. Watts.

A mixture of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions. Johnson.

A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot.

, a dish made of pieces of beef or veal cut thin, or minced, beaten flat, and stewed with onion and other condiments; -- called also Scotch collops. [Written also scotcht collops.]

A small kind of onion (Allium Ascalonicum) growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.

To germinate; to bud; to sprout. Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth. Bacon. But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain. Dryden.