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embling, suitable to, or characteristic of, a man, manlike, masculine. Chaucer. A woman impudent and mannish grown. Shak.

int, etc. -- Mill bar (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill. -- Mill cinder, slag from a puddling furnace. -- Mill head, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill. -- Mill pick, a pick for dressing millstones. -- Mil…

ts, containing many species, and including the sensitive plants (Mimosa sensitiva, and M. pudica).

& Fl. Muck bar, bar iron which has been through the rolls only once. -- Muck iron, crude puddled iron ready for the squeezer or rollers. Knight.

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

r; a negative opinion; -- opposed to Ant: affirmative. If thou wilt confess, Or else be impudently negative. Shak. Denying me any power of a negative voice. Eikon Basilike. Something between an affirmative bow and a negative shake. Dickens.

To bear down with a brazen face; to surpass in impudence. T. Brown.

Excessively or presumptuously bold; impudent. Shak. -- O"ver*bold"ly, adv.

Excessively malapert or impudent. [Obs.] Prynne.

The barn owl; -- called also pudge, and pudge owl. [Prov. Eng.]

A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.

A small pool of standing water; a puddle. Bacon. "These shallow plashes." Barrow.

A small pond or pool; a puddle.

Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy. "Plashy fens." Milton. "The plashy earth." Wordsworth.

A puddle; a plash. Skinner.

Fat and short; pudgy.

The European long-tailed titmouse; -- called also poke-pudding. [Prov. Eng.]

Pudding made of Indian meal; also, porridge made of chestnut meal. [Italy]

A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. "The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell." Shak.

or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.