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An article of food consisting of maize broken or bruised, which is cooked by by boiling, and usually eaten with milk; coarse hominy.

To squeeze, compress, crush, or bruise. [Obs. or Low] Spenser.

To cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices. Plants bruised or shaven in leaf or root. Bacon.

A common plant (Saponaria officinalis) of the Pink family; -- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also Bouncing Bet.

A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil. The dogs came and licked his sores. Luke xvi. 21.

To bruise or make flat by a fall. [Obs.]

A livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise.

To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel. [Obs.] Lest they their fins should bruise, and surbate sore Their tender feet upon the stony ground. Spenser. Chalky land surbates and spoils oxen's feet. Mortimer.

Surbated; bruised. [Obs.] Spenser.

added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.

The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.

Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.

Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.

A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.

To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash.

tty whin (Bot.), a low prickly shrub (Genista Anglica) common in Western Europe. -- Whin bruiser, a machine for cutting and bruising whin, or furze, to feed cattle on. -- Whin Sparrow (Zoöl.), the hedge sparrow. [Prov. Eng.] -- Whin Thrush (Zoöl.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.]

h has spoiled or is on the verge of decomposition; loosely, an olive defective because of bruises, wormholes, or the like.