Search the Dictionary

t or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently.

Calm impudence; self-possession. [Colloq.]

Starch made from Indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc.

A pool or puddle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.

A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling.

Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance. Corruption lost nothing of its effrontery. Bancroft.

Marked by impudence. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Impudently. [Obs.] R. North.

d sense; as, an egregious rascal; an egregious ass; an egregious mistake. The egregious impudence of this fellow. Bp. Hall. His [Wyclif's] egregious labors are not to be neglected. Milton.

expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart out of a person possessed by one. He impudently excorciseth devils in the church. Prynne.

To Confront impudently; to bully. I will neither be facednor braved. Shak.

Pudding stone. [Obs.] Kirwan.

nts and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant. "Impudent fee-faw-fums." J. H. Newman.

To cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace.

A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace. [Eng.] [It is commonly called fix in the United States.]

h or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.

or refining; clarification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire.

To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.

To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.