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Having plenitude; full; complete; thorough. [Obs.]

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.

Antecedent decree or determination. Shak.

Preordained. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.

The act of foreordaining: previous determination. "The preordination of God." Bale.

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.]

Proceeding from putrefaction, or partaking of the putrefactive process; having an offensive smell; stinking; rotten.

vegetable alkaloids, as nicotine and certain of the ptomaïnes, may be mentioned. See Lutidine.

garded as a derivative of quinoline; -- called also methyl quinoline. [Written also chinaldine.]

crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as a febrifuge. [Written also chinidine.]

ment of cinchona bark. It consists of a mixture of several alkaloids. [Written also chinoidine.]