Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PUCK'ER, n.

A fold or wrinkle, or a collection of folds.

PUCK'ER, v.t. [Sp. buche, a purse, rumple or pucker; bucle, a buckle; buchar, to hide. Buche signifies also a crop or craw, and the breast; hence perhaps L. pectus; Port. bucho, the crop, the stomach. Qu. Ir. fighim, to weave; G. fach. In Gr. πυκα signifies closely, densely; πυαωζω, to cover. Class Bg. The primary sense is probably to draw, to wrinkle.]

To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate. His face pale and withered, and his skin puckered in wrinkles. – Spectator. It is usually followed by up; as, to pucker up cloth; but up is superfluous. It is a popular word, but not elegant.

PUCK'ER-ED, pp.

Gathered in folds; wrinkled.

PUCK'ER-ING, ppr.

Wrinkling.

PUD'DER, n. [This is supposed to be the same as Pother.]

A tumult; a confused noise; a bustle. [Vulgar.] – Shak. Locke.

PUD'DER, v.i.

To make a tumult or bustle. – Locke.

PUD'DER, v.t.

To perplex; embarrass; to confuse; vulgarly, to bother. – Locke.

PUD'DER-ED, pp.

Perplexed; bothered.

PUD'DER-ING, ppr.

Perplexing; confusing.

PUD'DING, or PUD'DEN-ING, n.

In seamen's language, a thick wreath or circle of cordage, tapering from the middle toward the ends, and fastened about the mast below the trusses, to prevent the yards from falling down when the ropes sustaining them are shot away.

PUD'DING, n. [W. poten, what bulges out, a paunch, a pudding; Fr. boudin, a pudding, from bouder, to pout; Ir. boideal; G. and Dan. pudding; Sw. puding. Class Bd.]

1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but usually a compound of flower, or meal of maiz, with milk and eggs, sometimes enriched with raisins and called plum-pudding.
2. An intestine. – Shak.
3. An intestine stuffed with meat, &c. now called a sausage.
4. Proverbially, food or victual. Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue. – Prior.

PUD'DING-GRASS, n.

A plant of the genus Mentha. – Fam. of Plants.

PUD'DING-GROSS, n.

A plant. Qu. – Johnson.

PUD'DING-PIE, n.

A pudding with meat baked in it. – Hudibras.

PUD'DING-PIPE-TREE, n. [PUD'DING PIPE-TREE.]

A plant of the genus Cassia. – Fam. of Plants.

PUD'DING-SLEEVE, n.

A sleeve of the full dress clerical gown. – Swift.

PUD'DING-STONE, n.

Conglomerate; a coarse sandstone composed of silicious pebbles, flint, &c. united by a cement. – Cleaveland.

PUD'DING-TIME, n.

1. The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the first dish set on the table, or rather first eaten; a practice not yet obsolete among the common people of New England.
2. The nick of time; critical time. – Hudibras.

PUD'DLE, n. [Ir. boidhlia; G. pfütze.]

A small stand of dirty water; a muddy plash. – Dryden. Addison.

PUD'DLE, v.t.

1. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt and water. – Shak. Dryden.
2. To make thick or close; to render impervious to water.

PUD'DLED, pp.

Made muddy or foul.

PUD'DLING, ppr.

Making muddy or dirty.

PUD'DLY, a.

Muddy; foul; dirty. – Carew.

PUD'DOCK, or PUR'ROCK, n. [for paddock or parrock, park.]

A small inclosure. [Provincial in England.]

PU'DEN-CY, n. [L. pudens, pudeo, to blush or be ashamed; Ar. عَبَدَ abada, to worship, to prostrate one's self, to cast down, to subdue, to be ashamed, or Ch. בהת, to blush. Qu. Heb. בוש, in a different dialect. The first is the more probable affinity. Class Bd, No. 11, 26.]

Modesty; shamefacedness. – Shak.