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Modesty; chastity. Howell.

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

A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal. And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight in blood. Hudibras.

To deflour; to dishonor. [Obs.]

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

The quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others; shamelessness; forwardness; want of modesty. Clear truths that their own evidence forces us to admit, or common experience makes it impudence to deny. Locke. Where pride and impudence (in fashion knit) Usurp th…

Impudence. [Obs.] Burton. Audacious without impudency. Shak.

regard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy. More than impudent sauciness. Shak. When we behold an angel, not to fear Is to be impudent. Dryden.

In an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly. At once assail With open mouths, and impudently rail. Sandys.

Immodesty. Sheldon.

A merry-andrew; a buffoon. Milton.

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

Admitting of repudiation; fit or proper to be put away.

off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject. Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care. Prynne.

The act of repudiating, or the state of being repuddiated; as, the repudiation of a doctrine, a wife, a debt, etc.

One who repudiates.

Any large holothurian. [Prov. Eng.]

igging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes. My spud these nettles from the stone can part. Swyft.

Of or pertaining to dancing; performed by dancing. [R.] " Tripudiary augurations." Sir T. Browne.

To dance. [R.] Cockeram.