And solid pudding against empty praise. --Pope.
2. Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency
of, pudding.
3. An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat,
etc.; a sausage. --Shak.
Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.
--Prior.
5. (Naut.) Same as {Puddening}.
{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.]
Mars, that still protects the stout, In pudding
time came to his aid. --Hudibras.