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A kind of boiled dumpling made in Norfolk.

dressed with, or soaked in, oil. Oiled silk, silk rendered waterproof by saturation with boiled oil.

A mixture of honey, water, vinegar, and spice, boiled to a sirup. Sir T. Elyot.

Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored. [Written also panado.]

A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softtened in milk or water.

An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, fat, or butter. [Written also pilau.]

ing. -- Pot hanger, a pothook. -- Pot herb, any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others. -- Pot hunter, one who kills anything and everything that will help to fill has bag; also, a hunter who shoots game for the table or for the market. -- Pot…

before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.

A meat pie which is boiled instead of being baked.

y surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes. In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned. BAcon.

A kind of pudding made of paste spread with fruit, rolled into a cylindrical form, and boiled or steamed. -- a.

A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scumming of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor. Rum bud, a grog blossom. [Colloq.] -- Rum shrub, a drink…

A spirituous liquor distilled by the Chinese from the yeasty liquor in which boiled rice has fermented under pressure. S. W. Williams.

dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt. Beverly.

A Lenten dish, composed of eggs boiled hard, chopped, and seasoned with butter, salt, and pepper. Halliwell.

red for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down. Sherry cobbler, a beverage prepared with sherry wine, water, lemon or orange, sugar, ice, etc., and usually imbided through a straw or a glass tube.

A thick and viscid liquid made from the juice of fruits, herbs, etc., boiled with sugar.

Boiled; seethed; also, soaked; heavy with moisture; saturated; as, sodden beef; sodden bread; sodden fields.

A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.

der Platinum. -- Pyrotechnical sponge, a substance made of mushrooms or fungi, which are boiled in water, dried, and beaten, then put in a strong lye prepared with saltpeter, and again dried in an oven. This makes the black match, or tinder, brought from Germany. -- Sheep's-wool sponge, a fine and durable commercial…