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

A porridge or gruel of maize meal and water, milk, or the like. [Sp. Amer.]

A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind. [Scot.]

ght, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.

Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen. Loblolly bay (Bot.), an elegant white-flowered evergreen shrub or small tree, of the genus Gordonia (G. Lasianthus), growing in the maritime parts of the Southern United States. Its bark is sometimes used in tanning. Also, a similar West Indian tree (Laplacea hæmatoxylon). -…

Porridge. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

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

A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer. Wordsworth.

de by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge. [Written also potage.] Chaucer. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. Gen. xxv. 34.

The seeds of a kind of goosewort (Chenopodium Quinoa), used in Chili and Peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made.

A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army. [Written also skilligolee, skillygalee, etc.]

An untidy woman; a slattern. Sluts are good enough to make a sloven's porridge. Old Proverb.

e who takes a university degree, -- denoting one who is only fit to stay at home and stir porridge. "We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus." Macaulay. (b) In some American colleges, the lowest appoin…