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Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.

A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child. [R.] O, you are a more mammothrept in judgment. B. Jonson.

serve or confection made of the pulp of fruit, as the quince, pear, apple, orange, etc., boiled with sugar, and brought to a jamlike consistence. Marmalade tree (Bot.), a sapotaceous tree (Lucuma mammosa) of the West Indies and Tropical America. It has large obovate leaves and an egg-shaped fruit from three to five inc…

Minced meat; meat chopped very fine; a mixture of boiled meat, suet, apples, etc., chopped very fine, to which spices and raisins are added; -- used in making mince pie.

Wine boiled and mingled with honey.

Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn. [U.S.]

Spoiled by age; rank; stale. The proverb is somewhat musty. Shak.

A kind of boiled dumpling made in Norfolk.

f war, consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are coiled.

To weary excessively; to exhaust. Then dozed a while herself, but overtoiled By that day's grief and travel. Tennyson.

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.

To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled.

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

ng. -- 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…

efore 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.

Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.

The state or condition of having recoiled. The recoil from formalism is skepticism. F. W. Robertson.