n. [ Probably fr. pudden, for pudding, in allusion to its softness. ] (Naut.) (a) A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a fender, on the bow of a boat. (b) A bunch of soft material to prevent chafing between spars, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; to bother; as, to pudder a man. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pother; a tumult; a confused noise; turmoil; bustle. “All in a pudder.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Puddered p. pr. & vb. n. Puddering. ] [ Cf. Pother. ] To make a tumult or bustle; to splash; to make a pother or fuss; to potter; to meddle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Puddering in the designs or doings of others. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others pudder into their food with their broad nebs. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. boudin black pudding, sausage, L. botulus, botellus, a sausage, G. & Sw. pudding pudding, Dan. podding, pudding, LG. puddig thick, stumpy, W. poten, potten, also E. pod, pout, v. ] 1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

And solid pudding against empty praise. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Any food or victuals. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Naut.) Same as Puddening. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pudding grass (Bot.), the true pennyroyal (Mentha Pulegium), formerly used to flavor stuffing for roast meat. Dr. Prior. --
Pudding pie, a pudding with meat baked in it. Taylor (1630). --
Pudding pipe (Bot.), the long, cylindrical pod of the leguminous tree Cassia Fistula. The seeds are separately imbedded in a sweetish pulp. See Cassia. --
Pudding sleeve, a full sleeve like that of the English clerical gown. Swift. --
Pudding stone. (Min.) See Conglomerate, n., 2. --
Pudding time. (a) The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the dish first eaten. [ Obs. ] Johnson. (b) The nick of time; critical time. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Mars, that still protects the stout,
In pudding time came to his aid. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Stupid. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }. [ Prob. corrupted fr. the Sp. name in Cuba, pudiano verde. ] (Zool.) A large, handsomely colored, blue and bronze, labroid fish (Iridio radiatus, syn. Platyglossus radiatus) of Florida, Bermuda, and the West Indies. Called also pudiano, doncella, and, at Bermuda, bluefish. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Puddled p. pr. & vb. n. Puddling ] 1. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water). [ 1913 Webster ]

Some unhatched practice . . .
Hath puddled his clear spirit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water. (b) To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To subject to the process of puddling, as iron, so as to convert it from the condition of cast iron to that of wrought iron. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Puddled steel, steel made directly from cast iron by a modification of the puddling process. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make a dirty stir. [ Obs. ] R. Junius. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. podel; cf. LG. pudel, Ir. & Gael. plod pool. ] 1. A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water. [ 1913 Webster ]

Puddle poet, a low or worthless poet. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]