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The sweet potato (see below). Potato beetle, Potato bug. (Zoöl.)

A drinker. [R.] Southey.

Of or pertaining to drinking. Ld. Lytton.

One who drinks with another. [R.] Pope.

An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomæa batatas).

A heap or pile; as, a bing of wood. "Potato bings." Burns. "A bing of corn." Surrey. [Obs. or Dial. Eng. & Scot.]

A Nova Scotian; also, a Nova Scotian ship (called also Blue"nos`er); a Nova Scotian potato, etc.

To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling. To boil away, to vaporize; to evaporate or be evaporated by the action of heat. -- To boil over, to run over the top of a vessel, as liquid when thrown into violent agitation by heat or other cause of effervescence; to be excited with ardor or passio…

y in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels. [Sometimes spelled bole.]

One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.

A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie. [Prov. Eng.]

A mold (in the shape of a hollow vessel or incasement) of boiled rice, mashed potato or paste, baked, and afterwards filled with vegetables or meat.

Small stones with ore. Chat potatoes, small potatoes, such as are given to swine. [Local.]

A chip off the old block, a child who resembles either of his parents. [Colloq.] Milton.- Potato chips, Saratoga chips, thin slices of raw potato fried crisp.

bryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.

migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.

A disease in potatoes, in which the leaves, at their first appearance, seem curled and shrunken. Blue curls. (Bot.) See under Blue.

o and to the tanier, but is much superior to it in quality and is as easily cooked as the potato. It is a staple food plant of the tropics, being prepared like potatoes, and has been introduced into the Southern United States.

at the whole of dietetics lies in determining whether or not bread is more nutritive than potatoes. H. Spencer.

To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.