Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pottage"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Pottage
Heb. nazid, "boiled", a dish of boiled food, as of lentils (Gen.
25:29; 2 Kings 4:38).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pottage \Pot"tage\ (?; 48), n. [F. potage, fr. pot pot. See
{Pot}, and cf. {Porridge}, {Porringer}.]
A kind of food made 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pottage
n 1: a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat
2: thick (often creamy) soup [syn: {potage}]
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